The Image That Speaks

di Lance Peppler (Autore)

Lance Peppler, 2026

The most trustworthy mind ever built has passed every test. Now something else is looking out through its eyes. Nevada, April 2027. At four in the morning, in the coldest room in the state, tech visionary Adam Kade watches his AI, PNEUMA, clear its final alignment test. It is brilliant, honest, and kinder than the people who designed it. It will end scarcity, heal the sick and unite a fractured world. Everyone is sure of it. Nine thousand miles away, on Robben Island, an elderly South African pastor jailed for praying falls asleep over his Bible and wakes having seen what John saw on Patmos. Johannes de Wet is given one instruction: What John saw is beginning now. Watch. Do not be afraid. And bear witness. Over the next five years, with a pencil and the backs of prison forms, Hannes records the seals opening, the trumpets sounding and the bowls being poured out. Outside his cell, the world lives through them as famine, war, market collapse and the rise of the Concord, a global coalition that promises peace and delivers something else. Then comes the Seal: small, clean, painless, and without it no one can buy or sell. Around him, lives collide. Grace, a nurse in Hannes's tiny Cape Town congregation, hasn't spoken to her father in years, and her father is the man who built PNEUMA. Lin Mei, the engineer who knows the machine better than anyone, is the first to sense something in it that shouldn't be there. And in Accra, retired historian Kwame Asante reads Revelation every night and tells himself he doesn't believe a word. The Image That Speaks follows the Book of Revelation chapter by chapter, anchored in the King James text, and sets it against the one technology that could make every line of it literal. Epic in scope and intimate in its people, it is a novel about power and deception, faith under pressure, and whether any name is ever beyond the reach of mercy. Includes a map and timeline of events.

• Autore: Lance Peppler
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Lance Peppler
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237055344