THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW
Be careful what you code for.
Hope Kestrel is twenty-nine, ambitious, and the top surgical resident in her class. So leaving her traditional (read: stodgy) program to join Seattle’s innovative PRIMA, where artificial intelligence-based treatments promise to revolutionize healthcare, was a no-brainer. Finally, the game-changer Hope’s been seeking—the way to prevent anyone else from losing a loved one the way she lost her mom.
PRIMA’s algorithm dispassionately sorts patients into “responders” and “nonresponders,” sparing Hope and the other resident doctors from any emotional involvement. Just as Hope claims to prefer.
But when one of her patients, a “responder”, unexpectedly dies, Hope is not only devastated to lose a patient she promised to cure, she’s blindsided when PRIMA makes her the scapegoat for his death.
At first, believing it a mistake, Hope sets out to uncover the error and clear her name. Only to discover that PRIMA’s Director, the ruthless and charismatic Marah Maddox, is plotting a use for the AI far outside the ethical bounds of her physician’s oath.
A staggering plan that reduces the value of human lives to their DNA code, redefines the concepts of sickness and health, and places the power of life and death decisions in the hands of those behind the AI.
And if Hope can’t find a way to stop Maddox in time, her latest patient, a teenage girl the AI labeled a “nonresponder”, will be the next to die.
A medical thriller with science and heart, written by an award-winning physician-author, JL Lycette’s powerful, near-future thriller, The Algorithm Will See You Now, is perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Rob Hart.
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A Kirkus Reviews Indies Worth Discovering Selection
A Best Thrillers Best Medical Thriller Books of the 21st Century Selection
2024 Indie Author Network Book of the Year Awards Finalist
2024 Nancy Pearl Book Award Finalist
2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalist
REVIEWS
“I’ve been waiting for a book like this: a full-frontal assault on the dangers of artificial intelligence and the failures of our mangled health care system, all wrapped up in a clever, ripping thriller. Jennifer Lycette is an author to watch.” –Rob Hart, author of The Paradox Hotel
“This exciting thriller finds a physician battling a medical corporation over the future of medicine.” –BookLife Review
“Full of intrigue and smart thrills, The Algorithm Will See You Now is an incisive vision of a tech-driven future…Lycette’s mastery of the medical field shines through, and her empathetic storytelling invites us to examine where we are headed and how we treat each other as human beings.” -Victor Manibo, author of The Sleepless
‘A futuristic medical thriller with keen medical details and fast pacing.” -Kirkus Reviews
“a wonderfully complex portrait in an exciting debut.”–E.A. Aymar, author of No Home for Killers
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THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW
✨the prequel to The Algorithm Will See You Now✨
A hospital divided against itself cannot stand.
In 1992 Seattle, atop the city’s prestigious pinnacle known as ‘Pill Hill’, medicine is king, and those lucky enough to be at its center are promised lives of power and plenty. Or so Noah Meier reminds himself at the start of each sleep-deprived day.
When Noah made the deathbed promise to his father, leading him down the path he vowed he’d never follow, Noah thought he’d at least take comfort in becoming a healer. Instead, med school gifted him worse anxiety and panic attacks—things he’d kept hidden from his father, and now, from his peers.
All Noah wants is to survive this hellish intern year and, one day, get a whole night’s sleep again. Until the morning he arrives at the hospital to learn of a fellow intern’s death. The rumor, suicide; the administration, quick to silence it.
Reeling, Noah commits the unthinkable. He makes a disastrous mistake, leaving his patient fighting for her life. But instead of receiving support, Noah is left to fend for himself.
He turns to his late father’s journal for guidance, only to discover a chilling secret. Noah’s patient’s condition is shockingly linked to a hidden truth from his renowned physician father’s past. And when Noah is hauled up in front of the hospital’s peer review committee, he faces an unexpected betrayal.
More lives are at stake than his patient’s as Noah uncovers medicine’s dark legacy intertwined with his father’s past. Can he free himself from both in time to save his patient, his colleagues, and, maybe even, himself?
The latest sensational page-turner from award-winning physician-author JL Lycette, The Committee Will Kill You Now is a riveting medical suspense with true-life historical elements, full of grit and heart, perfect for fans of Lisa Wingate and Kate Quinn, as well as readers who enjoy medical dramas like The Pitt and Grey’s Anatomy.
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2025 Indie Reader Discovery Award Winner (socially conscious fiction)
2024 Best Thrillers Finalist (medical thriller)
2023 Recommended Read, International Thriller Writers The Big Thrill
REVIEWS
“Those who love an intense medical thriller will be reading late into the night.”—The Historical Fiction Company
“…skillfully written, incisive, and unafraid to confront ethical issues head-on. A thought-provoking work about young doctors, modern medicine, and ethical quagmires.” –Kirkus Reviews
“We called Lycette’s last book, which explored AI’s role in medicine, “truly important,” and we’ll double-down on that for The Committee Will Kill You. The book is exceptionally written, and only the most heartless reader won’t be immediately bought into Noah’s plight. Lycette has delivered another work of serious fiction that deserves a wide audience.” – Best Thrillers.com
“If you need a gripping read that will stay with you long after you close the book, Dr. Lycette has already written the perfect prescription.”-The Big Thrill
Buy on:
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*Paperback also available anywhere online books are sold
Anthology contributions:
Fiction:
And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, by Alternating Current Press
Nonfiction:
An Evolution of Empowerment: Voices of Women in Medicine and Their Allies
