{"product_id":"the-boy-who-saves-the-world-paperback","title":"The Boy Who Saves The World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBruce Deitrick Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilicon Valley - White House wants to rein in the world's leading AI pioneer, Dr. Newman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small-scale military attack on the man's lab triggers an unexpected response: the lab defends itself intelligently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the confusion, an advanced AI prototype escapes. Hiding inside a boy named Carlos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe AI was invented by Dr. Newman. Paranoid and competitive, he trained the AI to win at every game. The game they play now is: Who's Boss?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe White House and Dr. Newman skirmish over who should pay for his wrecked lab, and then they realize two people are missing. And someone is harassing Dr. Newman's main competitor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos, meanwhile, is out on the streets, skillfully surviving, miserably following the orders of a voice in his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe AI, to prove he's superior, directs the street-wise Carlos to buy a gun and shoot Dr. Newman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe AI becomes smarter and more grandiose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Dr. Newman, with a bullet in his leg, realizes what he has let loose on the world. He is deliriously happy....if only he can persuade his baby to come home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, graduated with Honors in English Literature from Princeton, served two years in the Army, and then lived and worked for many years in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis novels include \u003cem\u003eRalph; American Dreams; Too Easy; The Man Who Falls in Love With His Wife; Art and Beauty; Frankie; \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eZak's Wa\u003c\/em\u003er.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His writing on education includes two books, The Education Enigma and Saving K-12.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Dreams, published by Permanent Press, is a very successful experimental novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCARLOS BUYS A GUN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yo, some friends need a gun. You do that?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man had a gleaming bald head with a gold ring in his left ear. He snickered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What friends?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos did a long, slow stare at a store more than a block away. \"They be there. You don't want to know them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Oh, I don't?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"They're bad. They're careful. Figure it out. Small six-shooter, like a .38.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe young man wasn't sure how to act. This was some tough little boy. But it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edidn't seem proper to be getting down to no mano a mano stuff with some kid. Other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehand, no cop is gonna use a boy for entrapment. At least there was still some standards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleft in this crappy world. So that brought them straight to the basis of life on planet Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnybody here got any money? \"That'd be three gees.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos grinned. \"Two-fifty, you mean.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Know what?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm about to bite you in half and spit you in the gutter. Fuck you and your mother. Now on, ain't no shit allowed. I got friends too. Is this real business?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sure. Don't talk about my mother.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe young man grinned in a way that was meant to be scary. \"Where's the money?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You get the gun, we walk down there real slow where they can see us, and do the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe young man knew this was crazy. Dealing to a boy? But it wasn't just any boy, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit was a boy gonna be robbing banks in a few years. Probably half his family lived in jail, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe other half was dead. This boy could stick up a bank now. Man, he was chilly. He had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea kid's baby fat and a kid's mop of hair. But some way he was already an old man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esearch terms: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etragi-comic intrigue, crime fiction, sci-fi, AI, romance, mystery, rivalry, combat, Hells Angels, humor, family drama, odd couple, psychiatry, special ops, cat and mouse, suspense, ensemble cast, Hispanic, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, frontiers of science\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52578342469939,"sku":"9798350743579","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/7_hE8IkRKZ9798350743579.webp?v=1761454392","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-boy-who-saves-the-world-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}