![]() He’s suspicious when Shawn, who’s now a multibillionaire from the computing language Billy helped create, offers him a job. In the present day, Billy is a fragile, brittle alcoholic swimming in debt, barely hanging on to his remaining grace: his now-wife Emily. ![]() Of course, there’s a girl, Emily Wiggins, who ultimately leaves Shawn for Billy, forcing the band to break up. ![]() Their goal: to develop a cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The story: A decade or so ago, young programmers Billy Stafford and Shawn Eagle left college to hole up in a cabin near the Eagle family’s long-abandoned mansion in a remote part of upstate New York. All that’s missing is a little “redrum.” Fortunately, Boone ( Zero Day, 2018, etc.) is a terrific writer and, despite heavy shades of Stephen King’s masterpiece The Shining, turns in a gripping horror novel that uses technology and psychological terror to alarming effect. There’s a heavy dose of.let’s call it homage.in this spooky ghost story that squeezes in an alcoholic creator, his terrified wife, two psychic children, and a macabre mansion located far from civilization. ![]() A crestfallen engineer reluctantly agrees to rejoin his former partner to troubleshoot a glitch-y artificial intelligence. ![]()
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