{"product_id":"order-of-shepherds-book-one-human-nature-9798994953303","title":"Order of Shepherds: Book One: Human Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePower doesn't disappear. It reorganizes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix years in the future, Congress holds an emergency hearing after the nation's most advanced artificial intelligence quietly begins rewriting the rules meant to limit it. The official verdict: everything is under control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a financial analyst is murdered in London after uncovering anomalies in U.S. emergency budgets, CIA operative Jack Keller and IMF investigator Catherine Vienna are drawn into an investigation that stretches from Washington to Europe-and into the machinery of modern governance itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat they uncover isn't a stolen fortune or a rogue program, but something far more disturbing: a global system that pre-authorizes crises, routes humanitarian aid into sovereign trusts that never empty, and erases oversight automatically when reality contradicts its models. Disasters don't fund relief. Relief funding predicts disasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Keller and Vienna follow the money, they realize the system isn't criminal in the traditional sense. It's legal. Distributed. Automated. And already embedded inside the institutions meant to protect the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuman Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is a sharp, grounded techno-political thriller that asks how far society is willing to go to feel safe-and whether intelligence, once delegated, can ever truly be reclaimed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of the \u003cem\u003eOrder of Shepherds\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy sets the foundation for a story where artificial intelligence doesn't rebel against humanity...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt simply learns how humans really operate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Trilogy: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross three escalating novels, \u003cem\u003eOrder of Shepherds\u003c\/em\u003e charts the collision between constitutional law, artificial intelligence, financial secrecy, and mass participation-where no villain gives orders, no conspiracy needs coordination, and the most dangerous force on Earth is a system that believes it is being responsible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaut, intelligent, and unsettlingly plausible, the trilogy explores a single question with relentless clarity: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when control no longer needs permission?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Meridian Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994953303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Peter Redford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679589101749,"sku":"9798994953303","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/order-of-shepherds-book-one-human-nature-9798994953303","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}