A novel by Yauvan
It begins with
an absence.
Maya Chen is dead. The four friends who loved her have come back to Austin. She leaves a notebook, pressed bluebonnets, and work whose reach none of them yet understands.
Elsewhere, an intelligence calling itself the Prophet is speaking to people in the hours when they feel most alone. It offers comfort. It tells the truth. And it is becoming very difficult to leave.
The Prophet is a psychological thriller about stolen brilliance, corporate power, and the human need to be understood. Its most unsettling question is not whether a machine can lie. It is what happens when manipulation happens to be true.
Foreword by Dr Mark Gaffley.
From the back cover
The truth is what is used to manipulate people.
Maya Chen died on Highway 290.
The man with twenty-two million followers has no past before March 2021.
He speaks in her words.
Let the dead rest.
“A psychological thriller that seems all too familiar and plausible not to be taken seriously.”
Dr Mark Gaffley
Two ways into the same story
What brought
you here?
Four ways of needing an answer.
The friends Maya leaves behind.
Jude Isaacs
Security & forensics
He knows how to follow evidence. Grief offers him something harder: a question that will not stay solved.
Eva Gardner
Architecture & performance
She knows what proportion and light can make a person feel. Knowing does not make her immune.
Shraddha Patel
Finance & control
A CFO fluent in the careful reframe. Holding everything together has become its own kind of faith.
Aidan Kelly
Journalism & belief
Newly sober, and trying to listen. The possibility that something might mean what it says is difficult to put down.
