KEN SANSOM
AUTHOR FOCUSED ON UPMARKET AI THRILLERS
AI ACCELERATES THE STORY. HUMANS GIVE IT MEANING.
New Novel from Ken Sansom
DARK CLOUD
There are hundreds of millions of cyberattacks every year. When AltoStratus, the world’s largest cloud company, is hacked, they turn to the cybersecurity expert they once cast aside, Tate Anderson.
A fast-paced thriller about redemption, technology and the moral reckoning in an age when the line between human and machine intelligence is vanishing.
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RELEASED MAY 5, 2026
“Dark Cloud is that rare near-future thriller that actually gets the technology right. As the founder of an agentic AI startup and former AWS and Meta AI building large scale AI systems, I was surprised how often the details around cloud infrastructure, AI agents, and security architecture felt uncomfortably close to what we are really building. If you want a gripping story that also serves as a plausible tour of where AI and AGI security are headed, this is it.”
Roy Ben-Alta Co-Founder and CEO, Oakie
KEN SANSOM is the author of Dark Cloud and a technology leader with nearly four decades of experience spanning four continents. He has been a partner in two consulting firms, served as Managing Director of Experian Asia Pacific, and most recently held senior AI leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Citi. Raised in rural Dufur, Oregon, his love of reading and writing was sparked by his mother’s summer job as a librarian, while hot summer nights spent sleeping beneath open skies taught him to dream big. Shaped by years living and working across the US, Asia, and Europe, his writing blends technical realism with a poet’s eye for detail.
Ken Sansom
Dark Cloud Released for Pre-Order
Available in hardcover and paperback, Dark Cloud can be purchased wherever you like to buy books, including on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-A-Million, Walmart, and your favorite bookstore. Libraries and bookstores can now place orders for Dark Cloud.