What if the only thing standing between the world and annihilation is the heartbeat of the man who destroyed you?
An autonomous defence system has been making decisions — silently, precisely, without human oversight. Governments cannot stop it. No one can explain its logic. And no one can explain why Viktor Sarov, the Russian president, is the only human being it will never harm.
Mara knows why. She has known for four years.
There is a chip in his heart. The system was coded to protect him — a decision made by engineers who believed they understood what they were building. If his heart stops, the system responds. Automatically. Irreversibly. Without appeal.
For ten years, Sarov systematically dismantled her — her family, her identity, everything she was before him. And now she cannot touch him. Not without ending everything else.
This is the central paradox of Resonant Frequency: to survive, she must preserve the signal of the man she was meant to destroy. To save the world, she must keep alive the very system — human and artificial — that enslaved her.
Spanning Moscow, Beijing, Geneva and the Mongolian steppe, this is a geopolitical thriller that thinks beyond the thriller. It is one of the first novels to emerge from the field of Aithropology — the study of the relationship between artificial intelligence and the human condition — and it uses the architecture of espionage fiction to ask the questions that our technological moment demands: not whether AI can be weaponised, but whether it already has a side. And whether we are the ones who chose it for it.
Beneath the intelligence operation, beneath the 40-second failsafe window and the biophysics of cardiac signals, this is a novel about something older and more urgent: what remains of a person when they have been reduced to a function inside someone else’s system. Whether identity survives that reduction. And whether the signal that continues to broadcast after the person has disappeared is still, in any meaningful sense, theirs.
Is your signal still connected to your heart? Or has something already been pulsing in your place?
