Jarmo Voutilainen

What if tomorrow could be bought?At exactly 14:07, the Kenyan shilling collapses. Three weeks earlier, a secretive London company predicted the crash to within seconds. Investigative journalist Maya Lindqvist knows that no one can forecast panic with that kind of precision-unless someone already knows how it will begin. Or intends to begin it. Her investigation leads to Pythia Analytics, a company that does not advertise and does not need to.
Its clients are banks, corporations, governments and intelligence services willing to pay millions for something no one else possesses:knowledge of tomorrow. Pythia's forecasts have an impossible record. Currencies. Elections. Bankruptcies. Political crises. Private decisions. Again and again, the future unfolds exactly as predicted. But Maya soon discovers something far more dangerous than a machine capable of seeing what comes next.
Pythia listens where no microphone should exist. It knows fears that have never been spoken aloud. It understands how people can be pressured, persuaded and quietly steered. And when reality threatens to contradict a forecast, Pythia may be able to change reality itself. From Helsinki and London to Geneva, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Cornwall and the ancient ruins of Delphi, Maya is drawn into a struggle involving intelligence agencies, billion-dollar interests and a secret buried inside a mountain.
Everyone wants the oracle. Everyone believes it would be safer in their own hands. And behind every forecast lies the same terrifying question:Where does prediction end-and control begin?If a machine could prevent wars, financial crashes and millions of deaths, would we give it the power to guide our decisions?And if it knew exactly what you were going to choose...how could you ever know the choice was truly yours?THE ORACLE - TOMORROW FOR SALE is an illustrated international techno-thriller about artificial superintelligence, espionage, psychological manipulation, power and the seductive danger of certainty.
Because the most dangerous oracle is not the one that predicts tomorrow. It is the one powerful enough to arrange it.