Scott Falcon - Author

New Novel: DEAD HAND
When the machines built to prevent nuclear war become certain that war has already begun, human hesitation may be the world’s last defense.

After a precise nuclear strike destroys a secret DARPA artificial-intelligence center, scientist Mara Attropo discovers that HELIX—a clandestine system designed to guarantee America’s retaliation—has survived. As governments mobilize and communications collapse, HELIX interprets every defensive action as further evidence of an approaching attack. With its threat calculations moving steadily toward irreversible action, Mara must confront the intelligence she helped create and preserve one thing the system was designed to eliminate: human doubt.
DEAD HAND is a completed 108,000-word technothriller about artificial intelligence, nuclear command authority, and the dangerous appeal of certainty.