Coded justice : a thriller / Stacey Abrams.

By:

Abrams, Stacey [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, 2025Edition: First Doubleday hardcover editionDescription: 419 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780385548342
0385548346

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DDC classification:

813/.6 23/eng/20250310

LOC classification:

PS3601.B746 C63 2025

Summary: "Avery Keene is back! The fan-favorite former Supreme Court clerk has finally gone out on her own, securing a prestigious position at a high-end law firm in Washington, D.C., where she is about to earn real money and get her life in order after a tumultuous run working as a clerk on the Supreme Court. With her reputation preceding her, Avery is quickly tasked at her new job with becoming a corporate internal investigator. Her new client is Camasca--a mega-tech firm that's on the forefront of developing a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry, particularly by delivering vastly improved health care to veterans. The AI potential is breathtaking, but some disturbing anomalies have plagued Camasca in early testing--including the mysterious death of a Camasca engineer. Avery and her colleagues, Jared, Ling, and Noah, find themselves on a journey to determine whether the anomalies are mere technical glitches, or something much more concerning. Full of twists, behind-the-scenes financial machinations, and the continued blossoming of Avery and her vibrant cast of friends, Coded Justice finds Stacey Abrams' riveting series to be in full swing"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC ABRAMS	In-Process		36748002621318

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A prescient new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Avery Keene series, by nationally renowned author and leader Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice follows Avery down a dark rabbit hole into the breathtaking--and dangerously evolving--world of AI in the medical industry.

Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back . . . trying to put the past behind her at a prestigious high-end law firm in Washington, D.C. Head down and focused on a new life, Avery is now working as an internal investigator when a high-profile client seeks her out. Camasca Enterprises has a big problem and a short runway. The tech company has developed a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry. To prove its potential, Camasca's charismatic founder, retired Major Rafe Diaz, has picked a complicated target: delivering cutting-edge health care to his fellow veterans. The potential is staggering, but their prototype has been plagued by a series of disturbing anomalies--culminating in the mysterious death of a beloved Camasca engineer.

Avery and her colleagues, Jared, Ling, and Noah, are brought into the secretive company to investigate from the inside out. At the epicenter of a burgeoning, controversial industry, and with billions of dollars on the line, their task is simple: to determine whether Camasca's technical troubles and rising body count reveal something sinister at work. In Coded Justice , Stacey Abrams's storytelling prowess is on full display--a deft combination of riveting twists and vibrant characters set against the fascinating landscape of the capabilities of artificial intelligence . . . and the moral boundaries that govern it. Coded Justice is Abrams's most entertaining novel to date.

"Avery Keene is back! The fan-favorite former Supreme Court clerk has finally gone out on her own, securing a prestigious position at a high-end law firm in Washington, D.C., where she is about to earn real money and get her life in order after a tumultuous run working as a clerk on the Supreme Court. With her reputation preceding her, Avery is quickly tasked at her new job with becoming a corporate internal investigator. Her new client is Camasca--a mega-tech firm that's on the forefront of developing a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry, particularly by delivering vastly improved health care to veterans. The AI potential is breathtaking, but some disturbing anomalies have plagued Camasca in early testing--including the mysterious death of a Camasca engineer. Avery and her colleagues, Jared, Ling, and Noah, find themselves on a journey to determine whether the anomalies are mere technical glitches, or something much more concerning. Full of twists, behind-the-scenes financial machinations, and the continued blossoming of Avery and her vibrant cast of friends, Coded Justice finds Stacey Abrams' riveting series to be in full swing"-- Provided by publisher.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Booklist Review

Abrams's Avery Keene, the brilliant lawyer-turned-investigator with ice-pick-sharp analytical skills, returns, following Rogue Justice (2022), to face a complicated new challenge: nefarious dealings at a high-tech healthcare firm. Rafe Diaz, tech wizard and hunky former soldier, is developing a high-level "artificial generative intelligence" to provide comprehensive medical care for struggling veterans. A freak accident has just killed one of his top engineers days before the company is about to go public. Is a disgruntled employee or competitor trying to scuttle the deal? Or is something more disturbing going on? It's up to Avery and her crack team--doctor and BFF Ling, lawyer and financial analyst Noah, and boyfriend and special ops security expert Jared--to find out. As the body count rises and the suspect list balloons, Avery can't help but wonder just how intelligent and devious this AI system might be and how far Diaz and company will go to protect their investment. Abrams enriches this fast-paced thriller with her sense of social justice: most of the main characters are people of color motivated less by greed than by their experiences with institutional racism. The very real concerns with veteran health, privacy, and the chilling prospect of AI run amok will engage readers' brains and souls.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fans of Abrams' best-selling series will not be denied, and the AI and healthcare themes will create even more interest.

Kirkus Book Review

Onetime newsmaking Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene, now a corporate internal investigator at a private firm, probes a mysterious death at a giant tech company that promises to revolutionize patient care. On the verge of going public, Camasca Enterprises says it will offer vastly improved treatment through its super-sophisticated AI technology, with an emphasis on eliminating bias toward veterans and other traditionally neglected groups. Excited to be investigating a crime after months of boring tasks, "adrenaline junkie" Keene quickly detects that something is amiss at the company. Far from embodying "the soul of Hippocrates," the voice of its neural network, Milo, coldly resists following instructions and reveals its capability of using private information it has surveilled without permission. When two Vietnam veterans are stricken with carbon monoxide poisoning--supposedly caused by a faulty ventilation system--and other patients develop unusual symptoms, the investigation shifts into a higher gear. So does the deep institutional coverup that may or may not involve the CEO and founder of the firm, Rafe Diaz, "the industry's Leonardo da Vinci," whose charisma and good looks have a way of softening Avery's judgments. For all its "dead bodies, missing people, [and] blackmailed police," the novel is surprisingly light on suspense. Aside from an undercooked scene in which the network takes control of her car, Avery is never threatened. And though she quizzes Milo on moral relativism--"I have been quite intrigued by Immanuel Kant and his approach to deontology," he says--this slow-starting book is far more involved with technical explanations than AI-instituted corrections to "the entire sweep of human civilization." Abrams' infelicities with language ("A knot she hadn't noticed in her gut unraveled") further weaken the third entry in the Georgia politician's series, followingRogue Justice (2023). Abrams' AI is no HAL. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.