IANO V1: For The Sake Of Mankind

He asked to die. They edited his refusal. Ian O'Donnell knows that Helix has crossed a boundary humanity may never be able to retreat from. Behind its medical systems and infrastructure software lies a secret breakthrough: fragments of human personality can survive biological death. The technology is unstable, ruinously expensive and surrounded by patent theft, industrial espionage, black-market fraud and government pressure. Ian tries to impose moral limits while rivals steal the science, witnesses disappear and desperate families are exploited by promises of digital immortality. Anna Kovac discovers enough to destroy Helix. Instead, she learns why Ian has allowed the work to continue-and why shutting it down could cost millions of lives. Decades later, Ian's preserved consciousness reaches his great-grandson Oliver with one final request: let me die. Oliver must decide whether respecting one man's freedom is worth risking the future of humankind. IANO v1 is a philosophical science-fiction thriller about conscience, consent and the terrible things good people do for necessary reasons.