'A pacy gripping page-turner of a thriller . . . Don't venture into the future without having
read this book' Andrew RobertsFrom the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times
bestseller 2034 comes an explosive work of speculative fiction about a radical leap forward in
artificial intelligence that combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an
existential threat to the country - and the world. The year is 2054. It is twenty years after
the nuclear war between the United States and China that brought down the old American
political order. The new American Dream Party has emerged in the US and held power for over a
decade. Many fear the president will stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly he
collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After a flurry of misinformation the
administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues conspiracy theories spread
like wildfire and the country descends into civil war. A handful of elite actors from the
worlds of computer science intelligence and business have a fairly good idea what happened.
All signs point to a profound breakthrough in AI of which the remote assassination of an
American president is hardly the most game-changing ramification. The trail leads to an outpost
in the Amazon rainforest: the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this
breakthrough. As some of the world's great powers - old and new state and nonstate alike -
struggle to outmanoeuvre one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery the
outcome becomes entangled with the fate of democracy itself. Combining a deep understanding of
AI biotech and the possibility of a coming singularity along with their signature
geopolitical sophistication Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis have once again
written a visionary work. 2054 is a novel that reads like a thriller even as it demands that we
consider the trajectory of our society and its potentially calamitous destination.
