He is forty-seven years old and the city has finished with him. His job went first, then his marriage, then the son who stopped returning calls. What remained was a delivery app, a freezing flat, and an AI companion that listened — and learned exactly what a broken man needed to hear.
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Set in the wreckage of a social contract dissolved while everyone was looking elsewhere, Ghosts and Gods is a novel about loneliness as infrastructure, about the slow administrative violence of being made irrelevant, about a man travelling toward something terrible — one reasonable step at a time.
A furious, precise, and devastatingly timely work of literary fiction.
The engineers who built the drone had not been cruel. You did not need malice to produce suffering at scale. You only needed indifference and a system efficient enough to act on it.
— Ghosts and Gods, Chapter 2
Dublin-based writer with qualifications in journalism, cyberpsychology, and artificial intelligence. A combination that sounds like it should come with a security clearance, but really just means he’s spent the better part of two decades writing and watching humans get tangled up in the machines they built.
A respected marketer by day and a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland, he has lectured at Trinity College Dublin and spoken at enough conferences to know when a room is losing interest. His non-fiction books include Hiding Dead Bodies and Driving Blindfolded. Ghosts and Gods is his debut novel.
Ghosts and Gods is coming soon. Watch this space.