Chosen
About this book
“Chosen” is a contemporary adventure novel set in Dunedin, New Zealand. Jamie and Maddy, a pair of teenagers, are both fiery, antisocial and tend to be loners, but they share a common wound which helps bind them together.Jamie’s father is a scientist working in a department of the Dunedin Medical School, the Department of Computing and Social Science. His research project is unexpectedly successful, and produces a world first; a DNA based computer which can actually think for itself. But as things go wrong, Jamie and Maddy are thrown into the position of defending themselves against the computer, and running against the clock to stop it spread its programming onto the internet.The two friends are not the only players. An American man with a military demeanour and an ugly facial scar has arrived in Dunedin, and he seems to have intentions of his own with respect to the computer. It turns out that he will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get hold of it.And this is not to mention the angel. Jamie believes he has been approached by an angel, and told that he, personally, is the only person who can disable the A.I. computer and prevent a world cataclysm. He fluctuates between thinking he has gone insane, and believing that he is the ‘chosen one’.