Wither

THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2026.

A hypnotic debut novel of meltdown-by-algorithmic-horror.

No one is invisible.
No more toiling in the dark.
All the world is knowable.

Mick has been off-grid for more than a year, surviving in the Missouri woods. He's on the wrong side of paranoid, haunted by the catastrophe that sent him running, and he needs antibiotics for a rotting wound. If he can return to civilization, maybe he can reclaim what he's lost: a relationship with an environmental activist named Alison, a dream of escaping his small-time youth for Chicago, and the cutting-edge data-analytics tool that just might be his meal ticket.

But when Mick arrives in Bloom, Missouri, he's confronted by a ghost town: there are cars in the driveways and cans in the cupboards, but the people are gone, and it looks like they left in a hurry. Mick should probably leave, too, but he's looking for Alison, looking for redemption, and he's looking for Regression, the algorithmic black box that promised: No one is invisible . . .

Told in alternating timelines, Wither is an unnerving, thought-provoking horror for our times.