The Devil's Calling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781626349629)

Dive into the second entry in Mike Kelley's spellbinding trilogy, with freethinking literature professor Sean Byron McQueen returning for another high-stakes adventure in the near future of chat bots, supercomputers and brain computer interface.

​It's been nine years since Sean Byron McQueen and quantum physics professor Emily Edens--aka M--discovered his murdered best friend's Theory of Everything. Now, Sean and M live a near-idyllic life on the campus of a college they've established for young women. M's teaching of the new paradigm-shifting theory of constant creation has made her a rock-star scientist.

When Sean's missing spiritual guide, Juno--believed to have been abducted by aliens that are targeting enlightened beings--sends him a telepathic message that his beloved and illuminated M is also in danger, Sean becomes hypervigilant in order to protect her.

Meanwhile, troubling AI-produced literature begins arriving in Sean's inbox, and the culprit may be an ex-CIA operative with the code name Guru who is intent on revenge. Sean presumes the Guru is also the mastermind behind Genesis, a super-intelligent Russian computer that will connect humans via a network of direct brain-to-brain links. Genesis is seen as the next evolutionary step by the wired-in nation (WiN), a group determined to create a New Society. Are the Guru and WiN after M, who is determined to ensure the ethical rollout of the dangerous "hive-mind" technology, or are the threats figments of Sean's vivid imagination--his superpower and curse?

Author: Michael Kelley
ISBN-10: 1626349622
ISBN-13: 9781626349629
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.35w x 1.53d

Review Citation(s):
PW Booklife Reviews 05/30/2022
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001