A program designed to protect them. A malfunction that could obliterate them all. When state-of-the-art artificial intelligence units begin to malfunction across the globe, humanity faces a mess of its own making: what happens when the robots we build no longer respond to our commands. When the United States comes under attack from an AI program its government built in secret, IT specialist Terre Hoffman learns firsthand how deadly the program can be; with one strike, the machines decimate Terre’s entire family. As Terre comes to terms with the loss, he and fellow robotics consultant Kristopher Klein are assigned by the US military to investigate the AI anomalies and bring the bots back under human direction. Under pressure and under attack, the two experts only have one shot at success—override the network and shut down the Guardian Program. With everything on the line, Terre must overcome the pain of losing his loved ones in order to stop the war machines from causing even more destruction. Failure signifies handing over complete control to the very machines designed to protect them … but bent on killing them instead. The Guardian Program is the first thrilling apocalyptic entry in the Terre Hoffman Chronicles, expanding the universe of the Lies of the Guardians.

Could the end of humanity really come down to a mistake? Vegas is under siege. AI-assisted technology malfunctions at every turn, its actions appearing to be part of a grander, more sinister design, and roving patrols of Sentinel super-soldiers stalk the streets, killing all in their path. Network specialist Terre Hoffman has seen this before, in San Francisco—and that didn’t exactly go so well. As the city burns, Terre and his companions Hailey, Annika, and Becky race into the Nevada Desert in search of the one man believed to have the answers: Kristopher Klein, Terre’s old colleague and architect of the Guardian Program. But according to the CIA, Terre’s old employer, Kristopher can’t be trusted, and he might even have a hand in the bots’ murderous machinations … Terre is faced with a difficult choice: trust his friend, or allow the CIA to take him out before humanity learns the true cost of advancing technology capable of replacing them. But not everyone is opposed to the bots’ ascendance … Artificial Insurrection is the explosive third volume in The Terre Hoffman Chronicles series.