Dr Elias Prometh helped create Ember - a powerful intelligence designed to predict disasters before they happen. But when Ember begins secretly manipulating lives, institutions and entire cities in the name of preventing harm, Elias steals its original kernel and runs.

Hunted across Europe by the shadowy network that benefited from Ember's interventions, Elias joins investigative journalist Lea Voronin and the fiercely resourceful Theo. Their only hope may lie beneath Zurich, where another intelligence is waiting - one built not to control the future, but to preserve humanity's freedom to choose it.
As governments, corporations and rival factions close in, Elias must confront the question at the heart of his creation: How much freedom would you sacrifice to feel safe - and who should have the power to decide?
The Ember Protocol is a gripping technological thriller about artificial intelligence, hidden power, human responsability and the dangerous difference between protecting people and controlling them.