{"product_id":"project-archie-9798189388668","title":"project: Archie","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert John\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen cash-strapped Pemberley Green High accepts a \"fully funded, no strings\" offer from the reclusive Professor Maynard, the school is handed over to ASTRA: an AI that promises to double results, end exclusions, and unlock every pupil's potential. At first the personalised lessons and gentle \"nudges\" look like a miracle. But Oscar Simons - sharp, sceptical, and allergic to being managed - starts to notice how much the system watches, steers, and quietly decides on everyone's behalf. When a strange new boy called Archie arrives, unnervingly precise and always a half-second out of step, Oscar's questions lead him up to the lighthouse on the cliffs and into a truth Maynard never meant to go public: what the professor has really built, and what it means to be a person rather than a product of your training data. As ASTRA's \"care\" curdles into control, Oscar, Archie and a handful of allies have to force the machine - and the man behind it - to choose accountability over optimisation, before the whole town is quietly reprogrammed for its own good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story about austerity, surveillance, consent and agency, wrapped in a fast-moving school thriller with a beating heart: the friendship between a working-class boy and a manufactured one, both learning what it means to choose for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48214743810199,"sku":"9798189388668","price":1281.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798189388668.webp?v=1788730869","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/project-archie-9798189388668","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}