S.A. LONKY
A Conspiracy of Data.
In Medicine, Data Is Supposed to Save Lives. What Happens When the Data Becomes the Weapon?
The medical conspiracy thriller was written by a doctor who has seen exactly how broken the system is.
Fail Safe Not Safe / Retribution / Resolution
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon 
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
About Author
S.A. Lonky is not a writer who researches medicine. He is a physician who writes, and the difference shows on every page. Board-certified in pulmonary and critical care medicine with more than four decades of practice, Lonky has watched the medical world transform from a human art into a data-driven industry in which algorithms have more authority than attending physicians. His fiction is the reckoning that transformation deserves.
His protagonist, Dr. Alex Korman, is not a hero by design. He is the kind of brilliant, wisecracking, morally complicated physician who chose excellence and paid the personal price for it. Lonky writes him not from imagination, but from memory.
Author
The algorithm was built to protect patients. Someone made sure it wouldn’t.
Dr. Alex Korman has spent years building a comfortable distance from the world of hospital corridors and life-or-death calls. Then his phone rings. His old mentor, Max Fischer, wants to meet. Urgently. Within minutes of that reunion, Max is dead on a Los Angeles street. And the encrypted data he was carrying? It points at a healthcare conspiracy so deep, so deliberately hidden inside the systems meant to keep people alive, that exposing it might cost Korman everything.
A Conspiracy of Data: Fail Safe — Not Safe is the first book in SA Lonky’s medical thriller series. It is not a thriller written from research. It is a thriller written from forty years of watching what actually happens inside medicine. Corruption is not invented. The fear is not manufactured. The system Korman is fighting is one Lonky spent a career practicing inside. This is what the best medical thriller looks like when a physician author writes it.
The World Of Medicine May Be Deadlier Than You Think
High-Stakes
Medical Thriller
Dr. Alex Korman thought he had left the dangerous decisions behind. One phone call ends that. When his mentor is killed in broad daylight, and the data he was carrying threatens to bring down a healthcare system held together by profit margins and digital lies, Korman has no choice but to go back in.
Medicine Vs
Machine
The collision between human clinical intuition and algorithmic medicine sits at the center of this book. Lonky writes it from experience: the slow, deliberate transfer of authority from physician to program, and what is lost in that handover that no one in the system will officially admit.
Corrupted Systems &
Investigation
A fail-safe system designed to prevent catastrophic failure. A man who knows too much. A conspiracy of data that runs deeper than any diagnosis. This is SA Lonky’s best medical thriller, and the first of three.
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
AI Meant to Heal Turned Into a Weapon
See What The
Readers Are Talking About
★★★★★
“Lonky writes with the authority of someone who has stood at a patient’s bedside at 3 a.m. and made the call that matters. Every page leads somewhere you didn’t expect and couldn’t look away from.”
– Mathias.
★★★★★
“Alex Korman is the most real medical protagonist I’ve encountered in fiction. Sarcastic, brilliant, deeply moral in all the wrong ways. Lonky nails the voice completely.”
– Carlos Harding
★★★★★
“The ICU scenes are not background. They are the story. The tension is clinical. That’s what makes this genuinely frightening in a way most medical mystery books never manage.”
— Rin Nakamura.
★★★★★
“This book asks a question nobody in medicine wants to answer out loud: what happens when the system built to save your life becomes the thing most likely to kill you? Lonky follows the answer all the way to the end.”
— Jennie Jones Jr.
★★★★
A Conspiracy of Data: Fail Safe—Not Safe, a fictional work by S.A. Lonky, is a medical technology thriller that explores the idea of a fail-safe medical system. The pandemic had driven the United States to a single-payer health care system. To address all of the problems with so many different healthcare plans, the U.S. took the first steps toward a computer-run medical system. The Patient Care Initiative built a comprehensive database containing essential medical data for everyone for a 10-year period of time. That database would feed and nurture an artificial intelligence system to autonomously diagnose patients.
This book reminds us that technology is only as trustworthy as the people who control it. AI and computerized healthcare systems may improve the practice of medicine, but no matter how many controls are built into a system, they can still be manipulated by corporations, governments, and individuals. The real danger is not with the technology itself—it is with the misuse of the technology.
Dr. Alex Korman is an intriguing lead character. I love the unspoken nicknames he would assign people like “praying mantis man” and “whale man.” Dr. Korman, still a practicing physician, was spending more time as an author, podcaster, and lecturer. He was a semi-famous celebrity. During the investigation of the death of his mentor, Max Fischer, Alex refused to accept official explanations simply because they came from respected institutions. The main characters, Alex Korman, Flores, and Max Fischer, confronted corruption at enormous personal sacrifice.
I liked the pacing—the steady building of tension and the gradual unfolding of the conspiracy.
I found a few typos, so the book could use another round of proofreading. But overall, A Conspiracy of Data is an intelligent and thought-provoking techno-thriller that reminds us that AI systems must have boundaries and governance to ensure that humans always remain in control of final life-affecting decisions. Readers who enjoy medical and technology-based thrillers and conspiracy fiction will find this book very entertaining. I am giving this book a rating of 4 stars.
— Twylla Johnson
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