A looming AI attack. A betrayal. A murder. A race across America in a truck camper to stop a madman—unrequited love riding shotgun. Gordon White announces his first novel, Titanic Man. Now on Amazon.
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About a dozen years ago, I had something of an epiphany for a thriller novel. I wrote the premise down and shared it with select friends and family, but I never found the time to bring it to life. Then Covid happened.
Five years later, Titanic Man is finally on Amazon. It’s 267 pages, approximately 72,000 words, and the most challenging and fulfilling creative project I’ve ever undertaken.
What Titanic Man Is About
Titanic Man is a near future techno-thriller that grapples with the real-world social and political impact of advanced artificial intelligence. From the back cover:
The leaders of AI have warned us to exhaustion.
One isn’t going down with the ship.
Mark Churney is done with public letters, lobbying the White House, and being ridiculed by the media. On a stage in Monterey, California, the founder and CEO of ChurnPoint Al declares he’s fulfilled his moral obligation to warn the world about artificial intelligence and is taking matters into his own hands. He has no choice if there’s to be a future worth living in.
Three-thousand miles away, Jason Walker witnesses a murder and is pulled into a cross-country race to stop a madman. A year out of high school, Jason has never driven more than fifty miles from his hometown, much less piloted a vintage truck and camper across the United States. But what really has his pulse pumping is the girl of his dreams—sitting in the passenger seat.
In an intertwined race to avert global catastrophe, one human has the power.
Warning: Adult Themes and Language
I want to make this point as clearly as I can: Titanic Man contains adult words and situations that would never be published in Truck Camper Magazine.
There’s character and situation-driven profanity and a few violent scenes. There are mature situations and conversations that wouldn’t be appropriate for Sunday school. If adult themes and language ruffle your feathers, please do not read Titanic Man.
That stated, Titanic Man is full of heart, characters you will care about, and enough action, fun, and humor to keep the pages turning. And there’s a cross-country truck camping adventure, a murder, a love story, and a race against time to save the world. I think you’re going to love it.
A Lot of Thank Yous
I have a lot of people to thank for their contributions and support during this process. First and foremost, my incredible wife, Angela, has put up with my obsessive, incessant and—at times—overly dramatic behavior while I wrestled this book out of my head and onto the page. Thank you, Angela!
I also have to thank my twenty beta readers for their immensely helpful feedback. Thank you to Jeff Johnston, Mark Siminoff, Bruce and Kat Allison, Tom Hanagan, Kevin Pinassi, Pam and John Stuart, Jack Keough, Paolo Malabuyo, James and Elizabeth White, Jeannie Coushaine, Reyes and Deedra Murrieta, Lorraine Ford, Michael and Catherine Tassinari, Nicole Gugliotta, and Jonathan Holland. Your feedback made my book better and I’m deeply grateful for your time and effort. Thank you, beta readers!
I also want to thank the professional authors who guided me with their wisdom and experience through their books and MasterClass lessons. For their books, I want to thank Steven King for On Writing, Blake Snyder for Save The Cat!, Jeffrey Alan Schechter for My Story Can Beat Up Your Story, and Jill Chamberlain for The Nutshell Technique. For their insightful MasterClass lessons, I want to thank James Patterson, David Baldacci, Dan Brown, Salman Rushdie, Michael Lewis, Neil Gaiman, and Aaron Sorkin.
Finally, I need to thank my Editor, Adrienne Kisner, for her detailed copy editing and editorial assessment, and my Proofreader, Sean Leonard, for making sure every, semi-colon and em dash was in order.
Two Ways To Read Titanic Man
Titanic Man is available as a digital download via Amazon Kindle (free with Kindle Unlimited membership), and on Amazon as a paperback. Please note that print copies could take up to two weeks to arrive.
If you read Titanic Man, please write a review on Amazon!
Welcome to my first book, and my next chapter.
I hope you enjoy Titanic Man!
Sincerely,
Gordon White, Publisher
Truck Camper Magazine