A survivor of a high school shooting creates an algorithm that tracks
closet psychopaths across social media in an attempt to prevent mass
shootings.

SYNOPSIS:

Billy Slone was a senior in high school, a football star, popular, attractive and in love with his “Juliette”, Hailey. He was also a computer genius obsessed with learning to program. Billy, Hailey and Billy’s younger sister Bee were all inseparable since grade school. Hailey and Bee were the loves of Billy’s life.

Then, on one awful day his world was changed forever. Billy’s High School was targeted in a mass shooting massacre; Billy, Bee and Hailey were all shot by the rampaging psychopaths. Billy survived, but the two most important people in his life were gone, taken from him in a senseless act of violence. And now Billy is gone. He is born again as Slone whose life has a single focus, vengeance.

Slone, tormented by nightmares of gunned-down children, has grown into a computing giant who has made millions writing algorithms for defense and the military. Now from his solitary, heavily tricked out loft he pounds the heavy bag until his hands bleed, meticulously cleans and trains on his arsenal of firearms, and writes a NEW algorithm. This one tracks psychopaths in chatrooms and social media sites. Slone understands that there is ALWAYS a warning that precedes these rampages, a warning that was overlooked… until it’s too late. But Slone DOESN’T overlook what his algorithm finds, instead he tracks and evaluates the most dangerous candidates, hunting them BEFORE they can strike.

But there is an emotional price Slone has to pay as he walks the line between what is moral and what is evil, between sanity and the same madness as those he targets. As he wrestles with all of this he seeks counsel from his only confidant, a mysterious, alcoholic priest who at times serves as both a driving force for Slone and also his judge.

Slone, unable to care about anyone since the deaths of his sister and Hailey, meets a young, first-grade teacher named Brooks who is trying to get close to Slone and understand his hidden pain.

As Slone prowls cyberspace he discovers, a budding psycho who is stockpiling weapons and planning a massacre at a school reminiscent of the horror we have seen on the news. Slone, in an effort to flush him out, interacts with him via chatroom. The story builds into a frantic pace becoming a race as Slone desperately tries to find the mysterious psychopath before he can carry out his attack on a school. It will be a fight to the death between Slone and the psychopath with the lives of the children hanging in the balance.

RESPONDER