"Extinction" (Thomas Dunne Books), by Mark Alpert

A Chinese experiment involving the use of political prisoners and a supercomputer goes horribly wrong in Mark Alpert's chilling thriller, "Extinction."

Alpert spins a variant of the Frankenstein monster mythos with the terrifying capabilities of current technology. A computer named Supreme Harmony is linked to the lobotomized minds of test subjects and begins to become self-aware. The test subjects begin to think with one mind, and Supreme Harmony's first task is to insure its survival by eliminating any and all threats.