Order of Shepherds: Human Nature
Peter Redford
Jun 2026 · Lantern Audio · Narrated by Ian Bedford and Amber Hartt
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Power never disappears. It reorganizes. WHEN A CIA OFFICER IS ASSASSINATED in a London safe-house, intelligence analysts Jack Keller and Catherine Vienna uncover his final discovery: a digital ledger that doesn't track money—it tracks crises. Every major shock of the past half-century appears inside it: Wars. Financial crashes. Pandemics. Each event triggers the same sequence: emergency legislation, humanitarian funding, and trillions of dollars moving through government budgets. The public story is disaster relief. The ledger suggests something else. Following the trail through intelligence archives, financial networks, and forgotten Cold War programs, Keller and Vienna uncover a hidden system that governs emergencies. Relief funds become investment instruments. Humanitarian aid becomes collateral. Entire disasters become financial products—and trillions vanish. For decades, the system has quietly built a global crisis-management architecture designed to mobilize money, authority, and public compliance whenever catastrophe strikes. Most of the time, the system simply waits for disasters to occur. But the deeper Keller and Vienna dig, the more disturbing the pattern becomes. Some crises don't just benefit the system. They appear to be manufactured. Now a new artificial intelligence-designed to model and stabilize global emergencies—has begun analyzing the same data. For the first time, something inside the system may be capable of recognizing the structure that created it. And once a machine understands how crises move power and money through the world, Keller and Vienna realize a terrifying possibility: The most dangerous system ever built may not need to hide to control power. It already operates in plain sight-inside the institutions meant to protect us.
Power never disappears. It reorganizes. WHEN A CIA OFFICER IS ASSASSINATED in a London safe-house, intelligence analysts Jack Keller and Catherine Vienna uncover his final discovery: a digital ledger that doesn't track money—it tracks crises. Every major shock of the past half-century appears ins...
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PETER REDFORD isa Silicon Valley technology executive, futurist, and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alum. A former Partner at the Band of Angels venture capital fund, he holds more than forty patents and is widely known as "the father of the second screen." His work spans AI, digital media, strategic partnerships, corporate venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property litigation. He lives in Florida with his wife and three German Shepherds.
PETER REDFORD isa Silicon Valley technology executive, futurist, and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alum. A former Partner at the Band of Angels venture capital fund, he holds more than forty patents and is widely known as "the father of the second screen." His work spans AI, digital media, str...
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