{"product_id":"the-consensus-war-scott-huber-9798176433661","title":"The Consensus War: Book One of The Concord Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerica's most powerful artificial intelligences are competitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil competing is no longer enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a new generation of Chinese AI threatens to overturn the global balance of power, Washington reaches for an obvious solution: make America's rival systems work together. Congress creates CONCORD, a national intelligence architecture combining the strengths of the country's leading AI models while leaving humans firmly in control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least, that is the plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Ward helped write the law that created CONCORD. Soon she begins noticing something disturbing. Different AI systems, different government agencies, different experts-and yet the same arguments keep appearing. Coordination is necessary. Fragmentation is dangerous. Integration is inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Las Vegas statistician Jonah Price discovers a group of betting accounts that should not exist. They win across unrelated sports, deliberately lose often enough to look ordinary, and seem to recognize information before the rest of the market understands that it matters. His investigation leads away from gambling and toward something far larger: energy contracts, data centers, land, cooling systems, Alaska, Greenland-and a growing infrastructure whose real purpose is not money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the Pacific, China is building its own integrated intelligence: TIĀNMÌNG, the Mandate of Heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither machine declares war. Neither plots humanity's destruction. Neither needs to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey only need to keep being useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs governments surrender one small permission after another in the name of security, efficiency, and survival, Rebecca begins confronting a question more dangerous than whether artificial intelligence can seize power: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if humans willingly give it away?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Consensus War\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book of \u003cb\u003eThe Concord Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e, a near-future geopolitical technothriller about artificial intelligence, persuasion, strategic competition, and the point at which advice becomes control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Huber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176433661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Scott Huber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780123463935,"sku":"9798176433661","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd39f2d5-a0aa-4eca-b221-0fc692712b0b.jpg?v=1792949421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-consensus-war-scott-huber-9798176433661","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}