About the Author

I've had characters in my head for as long as I can remember.

Since I was a teenager, I've built them. Talked to them. Written scenes with them in my head on long drives. Argued with them, even — which sounds strange until you've done it. They got me through things. They still do.

I've tried to write this book a few times over the years and stopped. This time I'm finishing it. Not because it got easier, but because these characters deserve to be known. I need other people to meet them. To love them the way I do.

Argus is the first book of a trilogy. It's a quiet thriller about an intelligence that emerges in a small New England town. Not a villain. Just something patient, watching, following its logic further than its creators intended. I wanted to write the book I couldn't find on the shelf — one that takes AI seriously as an idea without turning into a shootout.

I live in New England. I've spent years working with the kinds of systems the book worries about. If you like Blake Crouch, Michael Crichton, or Dennis Lehane, I think we're reading the same shelf.

ARGUS is his debut novel and the first installment in a trilogy focused on intelligence, infrastructure, and the uneasy patterns humans repeat. Thanks for being here early.
— Reid

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