Techman Part Two: The Age of Intelligence and Language By Ricky Melwani

Something is writing in the world’s machines. Nobody can read it. And it is not trying to be read.

The boy who had to hide is a man now, and the world calls him when a threat has no name. From a classified hub in Sydney, Aaron Sharma runs an operation only he can run — because of the chip his father put in his head to save his life, and which almost no one alive knows exists.

He is hunting two enemies. One is a syndicate that has spent fourteen years buying its way into the infrastructure of forty-seven nations. The other is something else entirely — a presence moving through the world’s networks that repairs what it breaks, learns what it touches, and writes a new language in every system it enters. Languages that were never meant for anyone to find.

Six thousand kilometres away, his father is looking through a new instrument at the inside of a human brain, and finding a structure that should not be there. In one patient. Then four. Then in everyone.

Neither man knows he is looking at the same thing.

Forty-five days. Three hunters closing from three directions. And an answer waiting at the bottom of it that will cost a father everything he has spent his life protecting.

The Age of Intelligence and Language continues the Techman saga: a techno-thriller of artificial minds, medical discovery, and a secret twenty-five years in the ground, for readers of Blake Crouch, Daniel Suarez, and Andy Weir.