Ivan Ashcroft is the literary voice of a French financial strategist who combines over fifteen years of experience in international finance with fifteen years of volunteer service with the Red Cross. A seasoned analyst of risk flows and power mechanisms, he has sharpened his critical eye through encounters that reveal the naked truth of human fragility and the silent resilience of individuals—where dignity persists at the heart of chaos. A brief and discreet passage as a reserve officer in the French Navy offered him an additional perspective: a lucid dive into the workings of institutions, and into the human paradoxes that discipline and command conceal.
Curious and methodical, he marries financial rigor with a deeply humanist sensitivity. Fascinated by the morality of impossible choices, he explores the psychological impact of algorithms on our lives. Diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, he transforms his hyperfocus into a narrative engine, digging into every detail to the point of obsession to build worlds of disturbing verisimilitude.
Convinced that science fiction is above all a mirror held up to our contradictions, he invites, under the mask of Ashcroft, each reader to probe their own paradoxes—to better transcend them.
"Feverish space opera, organic cyberpunk, and moral thriller, The Last Heaven asks: can you choose your destiny when algorithms read souls?"