As once Elon Musk said that AI based technologies can put human race in danger. Rohit’s debut novel takes that statement ahead and puts a credible show of how that is possible. Take a look at the title – it’s a combination of terror and error, related to technology. Like water in the sea, technology is around us living in our daily lives, it’s now a habit for us. Smart watches, mobiles, AR and VR gadgets, metaverse… these AI so called assistant smart gadgets taking a lot of data and commands to design and process their own algorithms. Humans are so naïve that their tenacity is smeared with prejudice, thinking that the technology is serving them like slaves. And this tenacity could be resultant in fatal implications.

The entire notion is heading in an unnoticed wrong direction. Rohit shows us the way how technology, if not checked and observant properly, can bring us on knees in national security, personal commitments, and social welfare. Anyway, the novel is a combination of two aspects that are inevitably looking associated with it – error and terror. Let’s discuss the story at the forepart to grasp what we trying to juxtapose.

SUZI, an innovative product of Saytech Company, takes the world by storm. It is like Siri, Echo Dot, or Alexa. From students to wives to elders and all have found vestiges of comradeship and companionship in it. It serves them in many purposes. Doogle is another big company. Imagine it is like Google. It also contributes in the success of SUZI. The story takes a round lap and finally centers in India, mainly Mumbai.

In the hindsight the nation is scuffling with school-going teenage killings…often found dead in their rooms with SUZI as their command processing tool. No one can doubt how a smart gadget is linked with minor killings. In next to no time it becomes a tragic national event. No one has exact clue as what happened to them and why teenage folks are killing themselves. Automatically, a Guru appears with no proper background, he stops the killings somehow by doing Pooja, Havan, and rituals. He becomes famous, as like many other saints in India.

The investigating officer Ranbir Khandelwal and the journalist Diler Khatri doubted the tech device SUZI and carries out deep research on Guru’s background. The revelations are stunning. A terror angle surfaces from across the border Pakistan, that too with all evidences. It can be concluded that error is done to create terror. In short, this is the crux of the story. How and why – fills the narration.

View on the cover:

The cover and its back blurb is entirely tech, however, its inside story is slightly different. With that proper blue shade and a big chip like image, technology is at the centre of the cover page’s theme. It could have been better with humans in the backdrop like shadows, engaged in conflicts and warfare.

Views on Characters:

SUZI, the device is at the helm of the story’s scaffold. An AI-based smart gadget plays the center role in defining the trance of the nation. However, Guru, Kewadia, Khandelwal, and Khatri are some prominent characters that take charge of the story midway. There are many characters popping with time and moments, the book is more of a self-moving plot than the characters that make it thriller at the onset.

Final Verdict:

A short lucid read, the novel easily qualifies as a light tech thriller. Remember it is not a sci-fi, but a smart AI technology fills its base of storyline. With Pakistan, China, and USA harming the national security of India – the storyline depicts the future warfare, it could be happening clandestinely like cyberwarfare, hijacking smart technologies and so on. The message is clear: think about the technology before falling in its trap. Rohit’s writing is simple; the book could have been a literary genius with a professional editor’s expertise. Like a Bollywood spiced up movie, the novel is thoroughly entertaining and a sheer delight for tech thriller readers.