Michael Vale has built his career around a simple principle: extraordinary claims require evidence that can survive extraordinary scrutiny.

So when a classified American AI and a secret Chinese system independently generate an identical 8,192-digit sequence, he assumes there must be an explanation.

A compromised system.
Stolen data.
Contaminated training sets.
A hidden connection.

There isn’t.

As similar anomalies emerge across sovereign AI programs, Michael is drawn into an international investigation spanning Washington, Geneva, Riyadh, Iceland, and beyond.

Scientists, intelligence officials, historians, governments, and religious institutions begin confronting a possibility none of them is prepared to accept:

The world’s most advanced machines may not be inventing something new. They may be rediscovering something very old.

And buried inside centuries-old manuscripts are fragments of a structure that should not exist.

As nations race to understand what their machines have found, the question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change humanity.

It is whether intelligence itself is something humanity ever truly understood.

The God Function: First Light is the first novel in The God Function series—a global technological thriller about artificial intelligence, evidence, power, belief, and the boundary between what humanity can prove and what it is willing to believe.

Book Details

• Thriller / Techno-Thriller

• 320 pages

• 6" × 9"

• ADAM House Publishing

• November 17, 2026

• ISBNs For The God Function: First Light:

  • Hardcover: 979-8-953216-00-5

  • Paperback: 979-8-953216-01-2

  • eBook: 979-8-953216-02-9