Weber's Law book cover — a lone figure facing the U.S. Capitol beneath a wall of glowing data

An Acroneo Press Techno-Thriller

Weber’s Law

A novel by Kevin H. Carlson

He built the algorithm to catch the guilty. Now stopping it means turning against the system he created and the powerful people who want to control it.

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The Story

Alfred Weber sees what others cannot. Patterns inside numbers, crimes buried in ordinary data, the math no investigator would think to run. His gift helped him build one of the country’s most powerful data science firms. It is about to build something far larger.

When a sweeping data bill becomes law, President Mason names him the nation’s first Data Czar. Weber’s algorithm, SCALES, goes live and begins naming financial criminals the courts never reached. Arrests climb. Detention facilities fill. Half a trillion dollars in stolen wealth surfaces, and Washington decides a machine this profitable should never be slowed by conscience.

When politicians reach for the controls, they want the system aimed wider, at people it was never built to name, and Weber learns how little of his own creation he still commands. He built it to catch the guilty. Now, stopping it means turning against the system he created, and the powerful people who will not let it die.

The man who built the machine, he will learn, is no less dangerous than those who corrupted it.

  • 386Pages
  • 2Editions · Kindle & Paperback

For readers who love Neal Stephenson, Dan Brown, and Andy Weir.

About the Author

Kevin Carlson has spent his career building the kind of technology most people only read about. Since 1999, he has served as a Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer in multiple companies and industries, and since 2014, he has developed machine-learning and AI systems that detect fraud, model human behavior, and power custom tools for the media and entertainment industry.

Weber’s Law, his debut novel, grew out of that world: a fast-paced techno-thriller where artificial intelligence collides with politics and the legal system, built on systems similar to those he has actually engineered. His path to fiction began with music. As a songwriter during his teens in Denver, he felt a pull toward writing that carried him through years of technology blogs and newsletters before leading him to novels.

He splits his time between Florida and New Mexico. Carlson hikes, is an avid reader, and still happily loses himself in songwriting, code, and circuit design.

The machine is already running.

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