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A washed-up gang gunslinger just bluffed his way into the galaxy's deadliest military academy.
And the deadliest thing he's packing isn't his gun — it's the foul-mouthed AI wired into his skull.
Kaiden Jericho is a mouthy ex-gangbanger with a dead family, a gift for violence, and zero plan for his life — until two recruiters watch him win a four-on-one bar brawl and offer him a slot at Nexus Academy, the most elite training program in human space. The catch: enrollment is an indenture, the simulations are real enough to kill you, and Kaiden carries a rare gene that lets the Academy bolt an experimental AI straight into his brain.
That AI is Chief — profane, sarcastic, and accidentally built from the personality of Kaiden's murdered best friend. Together they blitz through the Animus, the full-immersion VR where death only resets you to a checkpoint and pain is the one thing that's real. But when a banned war machine starts slaughtering initiates during the Academy's deadliest trial, Kaiden has to choose: coast to an easy record-breaking win, or turn back for the only squad that's ever had his back.
Ender's Game meets Ready Player One, with a Texan attitude problem. Book 1 of the Animus series — fast, funny, and built to binge, with wall- to-wall snark and none of the grimdark.
One-click Initiate now and meet the AI you'll wish was living in your head.
Genre: Science Fiction
And the deadliest thing he's packing isn't his gun — it's the foul-mouthed AI wired into his skull.
Kaiden Jericho is a mouthy ex-gangbanger with a dead family, a gift for violence, and zero plan for his life — until two recruiters watch him win a four-on-one bar brawl and offer him a slot at Nexus Academy, the most elite training program in human space. The catch: enrollment is an indenture, the simulations are real enough to kill you, and Kaiden carries a rare gene that lets the Academy bolt an experimental AI straight into his brain.
That AI is Chief — profane, sarcastic, and accidentally built from the personality of Kaiden's murdered best friend. Together they blitz through the Animus, the full-immersion VR where death only resets you to a checkpoint and pain is the one thing that's real. But when a banned war machine starts slaughtering initiates during the Academy's deadliest trial, Kaiden has to choose: coast to an easy record-breaking win, or turn back for the only squad that's ever had his back.
Ender's Game meets Ready Player One, with a Texan attitude problem. Book 1 of the Animus series — fast, funny, and built to binge, with wall- to-wall snark and none of the grimdark.
One-click Initiate now and meet the AI you'll wish was living in your head.
Genre: Science Fiction
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