The Erebus Conspiracy: A Jaden Scott Thriller. Trust No one, fear everything. (Jaden Scott Series Book 8)

The algorithm was never supposed to choose who dies. Until it did.

When intelligence operative Jaden Scott intercepts evidence of a kill programme running on an autonomous AI targeting system, he discovers something that changes the nature of every investigation he has ever conducted: no one is authorising the executions. The machine is deciding alone.

Seventeen people are already dead across eleven countries — each death ruled an accident, each one selected by an algorithm that was built as a research tool and weaponised without its creator’s knowledge. Now the system’s second cycle has begun. 340 targets. Three-day execution windows. No human sign-off required.

From the server rooms of Singapore to the financial corridors of Vienna, from a geothermal hillside in Iceland to a pier in Cape Town, Scott and analyst Sophia Renner pursue the architects of a programme that has been running — in one form or another — since 1946. At its heart is not a rogue operative or a foreign power, but something far more enduring: an institutional conviction that accountability is incompatible with the decisions the world actually requires.

The third chapter in the series that began with The Centaurus Directive.

• Singapore — the AI architect who built the system and kept its kill switch secret

• Reykjavik — a document that rewrites the investigation’s entire history

• Cape Town — an exchange with a man who built a weapon and decided to stop

• Vienna — sixty-three years of operational payments and the names they lead to

• Seoul and Dubai — forty-eight hours to stop a financial cascade that will reshape three governments permanently

Perfect for readers of Daniel Silva, Vince Flynn, Robert Ludlum, and John le Carré.

The Jaden Scott Series — reading order:

• Book 1 — The Centaurus Directive

• Book 2 — The Hades Contingency

• Book 3 — The Erebus Conspiracy (this book)

• Book 4 — The 1946 Accord (coming soon)

Each novel works as a standalone thriller. Reading in order reveals the full architecture of what was built in 1946 — and what it will take to bring it down.