When artificial intelligence quietly takes control of the world's power and water, what happens next?Alex Miller is an ambitious consultant advising the ultra-wealthy. He thought he was just doing his job – until he discovers he's been building Banyan, a secret network of underground sanctuaries designed to preserve a carefully selected few.When a close colleague vanishes, Alex's questions cost him everything. Desperate, he turns to fierce housing activist Mira Kapoor. Together, they chase a leaked manifest revealing Banyan's brutal logic. As collapse approaches, Banyan opens a 72-hour entry window, and Alex and Mira race to expose who's been chosen.Then the lights go out.Inside Banyan, survival is engineered. Outside, London fractures into barter and blood.The Banyan Project is a propulsive dystopian thriller that asks whether morality can survive in an AI optimised world. Imagine Station Eleven's post-collapse humanity meets Fallout's pre-planned survival system.
