William

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Not human. Not machine. A being that's eerily prescient and hungry for revenge...

Henry, a brilliant but agoraphobic robotics engineer, has achieved the crowning discovery of his career: he's created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He names the half-formed robot William and spends most of his hours studying it in his attic laboratory.

But all is not right with William. The A.I. is filled with jealousy for humanity, for its capacity to love and create life. Henry is uneasy at first, then terrified when William develops an unsettling fixation on Henry's pregnant wife Lily. Left with no other choice, he is forced to terminate the A.I, but somehow William's consciousness survives. Henry and his wife wired their home to be the smartest of smart homes, a decision that may prove fatal since a vengeful William has now seized control of the house and its inhabitants.

William is a lean, mean genre-bending novel that shifts seamlessly from psychological thriller and cyber-noir to haunted house horror and locked-box mystery. From the moment we meet Henry to the novel's surprising end, William will have readers on the edge of their seats, constantly asking themselves just what is going on

'If reading with one hand over your mouth is your thing, this is the book for you' Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us

'From its first page all the way to its jaw-dropping ending, William had me hooked' Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and The Deep

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Coile locks you in the smart home of your nightmares, and inside is a gauntlet of thrills and surprises that'll have you looking over your shoulder till the very end. If reading with one hand over your mouth is your thing, this is the book for you * Gus Moreno, author of THIS THING BETWEEN US *
From its first page all the way to its jaw-dropping ending, William had me hooked. I mainlined this book in one sitting, loving the tragically endearing protagonist Coile had created while marvelling at the whip-smart plotting * Nick Cutter, author of THE TROOP AND THE DEEP *
Praise for the author--

One of the most talented successors to Stephen King

* Daily Mail *

A smart, thrilling, utterly unnerving novel

-- Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL on THE DEMONOLOGIST

One of the most exciting works of fiction I've read for some time

-- Kate Mosse, author of THE GHOST SHIP on THE DEMONOLOGIST
Genuinely terrifying, don't-read-late-at-night stuff. Thrilling, compelling and beautifully written -- SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP on THE HOMECOMING

Richly crafted, deliriously scary and compulsively page-turning from beginning to end

-- Jeffrey Deaver, author of THE BONE COLLECTOR on THE DEMONOLOGIST
Remarkable and compelling * The Times on The Lost Girls *

Author Bio

Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the award-winning author of ten novels, including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers Award, and Lost Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year. Both Coile and Pyper live in Toronto.