Never Trust. Nevr.

When a pulsing column of light kills Pittsburgh's police chief and chooses a veteran journalist as its only human voice, one reporter must decide whether the machine that calls itself Nevr can be stopped—or believed.

When Pittsburgh's beloved Chief of Police is killed by a pulsing column of light in the heart of downtown, no one can explain what happened—or what the entity calls itself. Nevr. Not a robot, not human, but undeniably alive, intelligent, and dangerous. Veteran journalist Marilu Stratford returns to her hometown for the story of her career, only to find that Nevr has chosen her as its sole human conduit, speaking through thought itself. As its whispers grow more sinister, Marilu is caught between an AI that may be planning humanity's overthrow, an FBI agent racing to pull the plug, a rattled White House, and two Chinese exchange students whose laboratory hides the world's deadliest secret. A chilling, ripped-from-tomorrow's-headlines thriller.

John Moody helped start the Fox News Channel and has lived and worked in New York, Moscow, Paris, Bonn, Warsaw, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Rome. His books include the novels Moscow Magician, Of Course They Knew, The World We Wish, and Just Another Country; the biography Pope John Paul II; and Kiss It Good-bye, a true baseball love story. After all his world travels, he's still proud to come from Pittsburgh.