Faber announces new high-octane, high-concept AI thriller – The Confessions
By Faber Editor, 2 July 2025
Lochlann Binney, Crime Editor, has acquired thriller The Confessions by former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr from Marilia Savvides of The Plot Agency.
For fans of Jo Callaghan and Harlan Coben, this is a high-octane, high-concept thriller in which AI runs the world, but has just stopped working – after telling everyone the worst things their loved ones have done.
The Confessions will be published in ebook and audiobook in July and in paperback in November 2025.
In The Confessions, LLIAM’s AI-generated answers power society – but today, he went offline. Stocks fell, stores shuttered, planes were grounded. And Kaitlan Goss, CEO of LLIAM’s parent company StoicAI, has to fix it.
Then the letters arrive: identical white envelopes on every continent, containing people’s darkest secrets – affairs, family secrets, even murders. As people worldwide begin to confront their loved ones’ worst transgressions, Kaitlan races to find Maud Brookes, the ex-nun who taught LLIAM what it means to be human. Only Maud can bring LLIAM back online, and stem the tide of societal breakdown.
But Maud doesn’t want to be found. She received a confession letter, too – about Kaitlan.
Now, as society begins to collapse into chaos, the two women are forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse, while the whole world teeters on the brink.
Paul Bradley Carr is a British journalist and author. He has written three memoirs about his adventures in and around Silicon Valley. He was the former Silicon Valley columnist for The Guardian, senior editor at TechCrunch, cofounder of PandoDaily, and founder and editor-in-chief of the infamous NSFWCORP in Las Vegas. His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, National Geographic, and much more. He lives in Palm Springs with his family and is the co-owner of The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs. Find out more at PaulBradleyCarr.com.
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A high-octane, high-concept thriller in which AI runs the world, but has just stopped working – after telling everyone the worst things their loved ones have done.