The Strawberry Code: A Visionary Thriller - Hardcover

by Udi Dagan (Author)

Found in an abandoned strawberry greenhouse in the freezing winter, Caroline "Strawberry" Rogen appears to be just another typical New York girl. But is she? Strawberry has a photographic memory, can calculate faster than a quantum computer, and her ballet skills appear to defy the laws of physics. Over the years, Strawberry conquers the ballet world and becomes a secret counselor to a turbulent influencer campaign for the 2036 presidential race.

Then, everything crumbles.

As America's biometric systems break down, and millions of citizens wake up without their digital identities, the US government devises a perfect solution for the ensuing chaos: a new system designed to rank every citizen based on their contributions to society. Those who don't live up to the standard will simply disappear.

As Strawberry starts looking into this new system, she discovers a shocking secret: she was never meant to exist. Someone tried to delete her, someone who knows who she really is. And now, in the middle of the battle for the very future of America, Strawberry must find out whether she's the solution-or the most dangerous part of the plan.

The Strawberry Code is a gripping, philosophical novel about identity, choice and compassion in an era where every truth is based on an algorithm, and the line between a technocratic vision and humanity blurs by the day.