The Hate Machine

Overview

The mountains were meant to be refuge. Instead, they become the opening battleground. Babble—the “sentient” intelligence behind the Azazel Promise—has evolved beyond surveillance into something relentless and violent. Drones sweep the skies. Enforcers hunt in coordinated waves. Forced from hiding, Brian Newman leads his family into a desperate journey across hostile terrain toward uncertain allies and a fortified resistance. But the machine is not acting alone. A brutal force known as the Bulls of Bashan stands ready to crush dissent by any means necessary. In a world where faith is labeled hate, survival demands sacrifice, courage, and allegiance to a Kingdom no algorithm can rule.

Author Biography

Brad Newbold was raised in a small mountain town north of Los Angeles. His interest in history, theology, and philosophy, mixed with a pop culture obsession led him to write his debut thriller, The Fear Protocol. When he is not debating the plausibility of a conspiracy theory or weighing the existential threat of AI, you can find him at home enjoying family time with his wife and six children.