Agency

By: Sean Fenian, Robert Auerbach

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

When the Box appeared in his front hallway one day, Ciáran MacCool had no idea where it came from or why it was there.

It started by showing him ways that it could help him out. Then it started giving him assignments to perform. At first, they were minor… yet still clearly beneficial. Sometimes they were serious. Sometimes they were very dangerous. At least one almost got him killed. That hadn't been part of the plan, but fortune is a fickle bitch.

Then came the day the Box told him to reach a specific location, with no further explanation, giving him barely enough advance warning to get there. He never expected how much, or how fast, this assignment would end up changing his life.

The first collaboration between Sean Fenian and Robert Auerbach, Agency is a near-future sci-fi thriller set against a background of the climate change crisis... with both expected, and wholly unexpected players. To say more than that would be telling.

©2025 Sean Fenian, Robert Auerbach, and Fenian House Publishing (P)2025 Podium Audio

Misleading summary

I was able to get through about half of this book, probably because of the good narration. The story starts off at a good pace with an interesting story line, but really drags through several chapters that come across as more of a romance than action/sci-fi. The idea of an AI engaging with humans was good, but it isn't really focused on in the story. I don't know if its origin is ever explained because I couldn't continue listening.