Core Program: a Supernatural Techno Thriller

by Jordan Bach

He created her. She might destroy him… and everyone else, too.In a near-future city where privacy is consigned to the history books, Michael finally completes the sentient gaming artificial intelligence that will make his company billions.

But, as he prepares to accept his bonus and wrestle his marriage back on track, sinister agents threaten him with death - unless he destroys his creation.Fearing for his life and sanity, Michael goes on the run, willing to trust only one “person”: the AI he created.

As the seemingly unstoppable agents close in, Michael begins to realize…

…it’s almost as if the killers’ apocalyptic warnings about his sentient AI might just be true.

With his loved ones’ lives in the balance, Michael is forced to ask questions of his creation that he always denied were possible, and his actions will lead to consequences he’d never imagined.

Jordan Bach, the author of Best Buddies, Reflected Dark, and Harmony Four, presents a vision of the future with a supernatural, horror inflected edge.
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There will come a time when it isn’t “They’re spying on me through my phone” anymore. It will be, “My phone is spying on me.” - Philip K. Dick
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last... - Stephen Hawking

219 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 17, 2026

About the author

Jordan Bach is a lifelong lover of horror and dark thriller fiction. As a high-schooler, he and his friends would consume Stephen King and James Herbert books in days, and his early ambition was to be an author of such work.

Sadly, life got in the way, and it took him several years to rekindle his love of writing.

He now pens books for both adults and children (around the middle-grade 8-12 age range), starting in late 2020, with a rash of new novels slated for 2021 and beyond.

Jordan lives under his real name in Staffordshire, UK, with his wife and two children, the children being particularly useful as beta readers for his kids’ books. In his spare time, he is a cyclist, runner, and martial arts enthusiast, and hopes one day to take his family traveling to many foreign countries, as he did as a younger man.

For now, it’s establishing himself in the competitive field of horror fiction. Do pop along to say hi.

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