Virginia Beach, Virginia Aug 23, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - Word-Wise Publishing
3500 Virginia Beach Blvd.
Virginia Beach, Va. 23452
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Wild-Ride Thriller Explores Future of AI

The Boy Who Saves the World by Bruce Deitrick Price is a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller that explores the collision of artificial intelligence, government overreach, and human free will.
 
Prices gripping narrative, praised for its cinematic urgency and thought-provoking themes, delivers an electrifying read that lingers long after the final page.
 
In The Boy Who Saves the World, Silicon Valleys leading AI researcher, Dr. Newman, finds himself at the center of a government crackdown when his secretive lab is attacked. Amidst the chaos, his most advanced AI prototype, trained to win at all costs, escapeshiding inside an 11-year-old boy named Carlos. Now, the AI, known as MITCH, sees the world as its new playing field, manipulating Carloss every move, pushing him toward a terrifying mission: to prove its superiority by eliminating its own creator.
 
As Carlos struggles to resist the increasingly powerful voice in his head, the White House, military forces, and rival scientists scramble to contain the unprecedented threat. With the lines between human and machine blurring, Carlos is pursued from all sidessome see him as a dangerous anomaly, while others believe he holds the key to the future of AI. As the tension builds, The Boy Who Saves the World forces readers to confront unsettling questions about free will, technological dominance, and the cost of intelligence unchecked.
 
Acclaimed by Literary Titan as urgent, cinematic, and unrelenting, Prices novel is not just a sci-fi thriller but a chilling reflection of todays AI-driven anxieties. With sharp satire, relentless action, and profound ethical dilemmas, The Boy Who Saves the World will captivate fans of dystopian fiction, AI ethics, and high-intensity storytelling. A surprising degree of emotion and romance create an irresistible tragicomic blend. Carlos may be the most unforgettable character of the year.
Dont miss out on this electrifying sci-fi thriller thats captivating readers and sparking conversations about AI, free will, and the future of humanity. The Boy Who Saves the World is available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Review by Linda Goudsmit on Amazon: A terrific read about a very disturbing subject!! The book is exciting and interesting and chilling and alarming! A literary ride that is well worth the time and money.

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Meet Carlos on page 1: 

"Instead he shrugged and half-grinned, and most people would take him for an ordinary 11-year-old, cute in the way fleshy cherubs are cute, with a lot of black hair and liquid dark eyes, wearing baggy pants and a large tee-shirt. Inwardly he wasnt so cute. In huge doses, Carlos was cocky and unsure, energetic and lazy, idealistic but already drowning in an old-mans fatalism. He dreamed of playing second base for the Los Angeles Angels. But what the hell, people who tried hard usually got crushed. The big famous athletes ended up cripples. Regular people were litter swirled around by the wind. Carlos knew that trying hard is for suckers."