Gray Matters

A Novel

By: John Webster Gastil

Narrated by: Victor Bevine

Can the digital networks that record our footprints hold us steady when dementia threatens to push us off the path? This question has real stakes for data analyst Charlie Sanders. His best hope for a father succumbing to Alzheimer’s comes from assistive technology that Charlie helps design for a scrappy start-up. Despite early successes, Charlie has growing doubts about the motives of each of his colleagues - the eccentric CEO in Seattle, the call-center guru in India, and the Trump-loving Aussie transplant who keeps the books. His worries grow when the company takes on a clandestine client who occupies the Oval Office. Will Charlie keep his father and his country on track or turn a whole generation into glitches?

©2020 John Webster Gastil (P)2020 John Webster Gastil

Riveting, A knockout

A powerful combination of the intersection of technology, morality and politics with some wonderfully compelling characters thrown in. With the advance of artificial intelligence many are asking where the person stops and the machine begins. This book illustrates one possible answer, and it ain't pretty. It is also is not inevitable. If you love technology, politics, Seattle or someone with Alzheimer's, you don't want to miss this book. Dr. Gastil, please tell me there is a sequel in the works.