Human Software - Bown, Richard William

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Résumé :
They came for the jobs first. Then the town. BETH WALTERS has kept Gerbach's IT systems running through skill, stubbornness and too many sleepless nights. She works hard to support her family and community. CHRISSIE HEGARTY is a new executive on a mission. She's flown in from New York with a mandate, a deadline, and little patience for sentiment. She's done this before. She knows how it ends. They are not enemies. But then the truth isn't out yet... Set in a decaying English port town, Human Software is a sharp, wry, and quietly unsettling novel about ambition, loyalty, and what it costs to be human in a world increasingly obsessed with automating jobs away. Freaked me out more than any Stephen King novel JEREMY MARKEY - Rands Slack Book Reviewer Vivid world-building and well-rounded characters. I found myself completely hooked. RUSSELL MCLEAN - Emmy and BAFTA Award-Winning Producer A proper page turner, part thriller, part whodunnit and a fine dystopian parable CHARLES HUMBLE - Tech Consultant & Journalist...

Biographie:
Richard W. Bown is a novelist and software engineer originally from Kent and now based in Amsterdam. His debut novel, Human Software, is a sharp, wry and quietly unsettling story about the humans behind the systems - the gap between what gets planned and what actually gets built. His second novel is in progress and will be released late in 2026....

Sommaire:
A dark, intelligent corporate thriller. For readers of William Shaw and Ian McEwan. Beth Walters has kept Gerbach's crumbling IT systems alive through skill, stubbornness and too many sleepless nights. She knows where the bodies are buried - technically speaking. Then Christine Hegarty flies in from New York with a mandate, a deadline, and no patience for sentiment. She's done this before. She thinks she knows how it ends. When a fatal data breach rocks the declining port town of Sandport, Beth's name is on the wrong piece of code. What follows is a fight for her job, her team, and her reputation against a company that has already decided who it's going to sacrifice. Set in a decaying corner of coastal Kent, Human Software is a novel about corporate rot, institutional failure, and the people the system is designed to grind down. It's a dark read. It earns what hope it has. Freaked me out more than any Stephen King novel JEREMY MARKEY - Rands Slack Book Reviewer Vivid world-building and well-rounded characters. I found myself completely hooked. RUSSELL MCLEAN - Emmy and BAFTA Award-Winning Producer A proper page turner, part thriller, part whodunnit and a fine dystopian parable CHARLES HUMBLE - Tech Consultant & Journalist...