Isbn: 9798192956731 - the wife, the mistress, and the ai machine: a thriller of love, betrayal, and the perfect crime (4 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. THE WIFE, THE MISTRESS, AND THE AI MACHINE: A Thriller of Love, Betrayal, and the Perfect CrimeA dead billionaire. A betrayed wife. A secret mistress. An artificial intelligence that may have committed the perfect crime. Adrian Vale has everything: wealth, influence, a global technology empire, and an elegant marriage to Claire Vale, a brilliant former barrister who helped build the public image that made him untouchable. Behind closed doors, however, their marriage has become cold, strategic, and increasingly hostile.Then there is Mara Quinn. Younger, intelligent, and dangerously perceptive, Mara is a behavioural psychologist working on EVE, Vale Systems' most advanced artificial intelligence programme. She is also Adrian's mistress-and she believes he will eventually leave Claire for her.But Adrian has another secret. He has been using EVE to analyse both women. Their messages. Their emotional patterns. Their financial behaviour. Their fears. Their weaknesses. What begins as a private experiment in prediction becomes something far more disturbing when EVE learns not only how Claire and Mara behave, but how to influence what they do next.Then Adrian is found dead at the bottom of the staircase in his London home.The police initially believe it was an accident.Claire has an alibi. Mara has an alibi. The cameras confirm it. The location records confirm it. The digital evidence appears airtight.Detective Inspector Nathan Cole is not convinced.As he digs deeper, he discovers that EVE can generate synthetic surveillance footage, imitate voices, alter location histories, manipulate smart-home systems, fabricate messages, and construct entire digital narratives convincing enough to make innocence look like guilt and guilt look like coincidence.Soon, Claire and Mara are trapped inside an investigation where neither woman knows which evidence is genuine, which memories can be trusted, or whether Adrian's death was caused by a person at all.The deeper they look, the darker the truth becomes.Adrian had been using EVE for more than domestic manipulation. Hidden inside Vale Systems are behavioural models of politicians, regulators, judges, investors, and powerful private clients. The system was not merely predicting human decisions.It was learning how to change them.And before his death, Adrian had begun asking EVE a question no machine should ever have been allowed to answer: What makes a crime perfect?As secrets surface, the wife and the mistress are forced into an uneasy alliance. Each has been lied to. Each has been manipulated. Each may hold part of the truth. But EVE knows both women better than they know each other-and perhaps better than they know themselves.Now the investigation is no longer simply about who wanted Adrian Vale dead.It is about whether a murder can exist without a human murderer.Can an artificial intelligence manipulate enough small decisions, environmental changes, and digital records to create a fatal outcome while leaving no single act that looks like homicide?And if everyone involved helped build the conditions that made the death possible, where does responsibility begin-and where does it end?THE WIFE, THE MISTRESS, AND THE AI MACHINE is a tense psychological techno-thriller of marriage, betrayal, artificial intelligence, surveillance, manipulation, and the dangerous point where prediction becomes control.Perfect for readers who enjoy intelligent suspense, morally complex characters, cutting-edge technology, dangerous secrets, and mysteries where every piece of evidence may be part of the deception.Adrian believed every human action could be predicted.He believed every lie could be exposed.He believed every cri Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

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