Shadows of the Neva

A Novel of Guilt, Memory and Algorithmic Judgment

von Fazel Zohrabpour

478 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if guilt could be calculated before the crime?St Petersburg, 2026. Mikhail Rodionov is an algorithmic-ethics researcher at Neva Oracle, a powerful private system designed to identify dangerous people before they commit a crime. Then the machine turns on its own creator and assigns Mikhail a risk score of 97.4.Behind the number lies Case Zero: a hidden training file built around an old murder, a theory of exceptional people, and a family history Mikhail has spent his life refusing to name.As police, corporations and public institutions begin to treat probability as evidence, Mikhail is forced into a battle that is not simply about whether the algorithm is accurate. It is about whether anyone has the moral right to punish a person for an act that has not yet happened.A literary psychological thriller set in contemporary St Petersburg, Shadows of the Neva carries the enduring moral questions of Crime and Punishment into the age of artificial intelligence, surveillance, predictive policing and algorithmic judgment.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173668875
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published