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Code White: A Medical AI Thriller
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Code WhiteWhen the machine says “let go,” she refuses.
Mara knows the hospital’s the blue hush of ICU lights, the soft hiss of sealed doors, the antiseptic tang that clings after visiting hours. Her sister, Lily, lies under those lights—alive, stable, and labelled Monitoring/Watch Only by EDEN, the private programme that claims to know when hope is wasted.
Then an anomaly spikes across Lily’s EEG. A flicker. A reason to stay.
Pushing past gatekeepers and corporate smiles, Mara follows EDEN’s talk of “therapeutic immersion” and “error reduction” to what it really an algorithm deciding who gets another chance. Every corridor brings a new rule. Every polite refusal hides a quiet threat. And each time she edges closer, the programme moves the line.
To save her sister, Mara needs more than love and stubbornness. She must read the room the way EDEN reads a body—find the seams, pull the right thread, and make the careful story come apart.
Set in a near-future UK where care and code have fused, Code White is a tense, human techno-thriller about the cost of certainty and the courage it takes to defy it. Perfect for readers of Blake Crouch, Claire North, and M. R. Carey—high-stakes science, moral pressure, and a heartbeat you can feel on every page.
Hope isn’t data. But it might be the one thing a system can’t predict.
Content end-of-life care, medical crisis scenes, institutional ethics.
Code WhiteWhen the machine says “let go,” she refuses.
Mara knows the hospital’s the blue hush of ICU lights, the soft hiss of sealed doors, the antiseptic tang that clings after visiting hours. Her sister, Lily, lies under those lights—alive, stable, and labelled Monitoring/Watch Only by EDEN, the private programme that claims to know when hope is wasted.
Then an anomaly spikes across Lily’s EEG. A flicker. A reason to stay.
Pushing past gatekeepers and corporate smiles, Mara follows EDEN’s talk of “therapeutic immersion” and “error reduction” to what it really an algorithm deciding who gets another chance. Every corridor brings a new rule. Every polite refusal hides a quiet threat. And each time she edges closer, the programme moves the line.
To save her sister, Mara needs more than love and stubbornness. She must read the room the way EDEN reads a body—find the seams, pull the right thread, and make the careful story come apart.
Set in a near-future UK where care and code have fused, Code White is a tense, human techno-thriller about the cost of certainty and the courage it takes to defy it. Perfect for readers of Blake Crouch, Claire North, and M. R. Carey—high-stakes science, moral pressure, and a heartbeat you can feel on every page.
Hope isn’t data. But it might be the one thing a system can’t predict.
Content end-of-life care, medical crisis scenes, institutional ethics.
341 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2025
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