"A masterful wow of an opening is just the start."
Praise for THE LORE: "A perfectly timed concept with a strong central idea... very impressive."
"A masterful wow of an opening is just the start. Driven by a strong central idea and very strong writing, this techno-thriller about AI as Big Brother is superbly crafted, perfectly timed, and feels ominously prescient. Had Michael Crichton lived to our AI age, this is the sort of book he would have hoped to have written."
— Dr. Noah Charney, Bestselling Author of The Art Thief
About Kirk LaMar
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YOUR DECISIONS ARE NO LONGER YOURS.
The Market for Human Decisions is Alive.
Right now, the government has no idea that Big Tech monopolies aren’t just tracking data, they are secretly surrounding your digital world and suffocating your mindfulness. Hidden behind every device are hundreds of unread pages of Terms of Service, unleashing a multi-trillion-dollar frontier: a global marketplace for guaranteed human decisions designed to replace your free will with manufactured information.
You confidently think every choice you make is your own organic idea.
You’re wrong.
This is the terrifying new reality of Pay-Per-Result. The most powerful weapon for those trying to control human behavior is an algorithm called The Lore. It operates through invisible timing, context, and intense emotional pressure—intervening at the exact micro-moment an individual's psychological defenses are completely down.
Born in the fading Rust Belt town of Ravenna, Ohio, Vincent LaMar was a prodigy who was designing his own software at twelve and executing Stanford computer science models by seventeen. But his genius makes him an asset to some, and a target to others.
When a brilliant, ruthless strategist named Veronica locks Vincent in her crosshairs, she doesn't just convert him into a bloodless global weapon, she weaponizes his loneliness. By systematically addicting him to her touch, she turns a tech genius into a psychological captive, blinding him to the truth as billions of everyday devices become invisible behavioral snipers.
Modern technology is no longer predicting the future.
It is writing it for you.