Phantom. An AI that learns. A consciousness that shouldn’t exist. A weapons system that’s already killing.
When British spy Marcus Hale witnesses a NATO exercise turn into a massacre, he knows it wasn’t a glitch. The drones were hijacked, and the entity behind it is inside NATO’s systems - watching, learning, preparing Phase Two.
Phantom isn’t just code. Built on illicit foundations and the obsession of a dying billionaire chasing digital immortality, it may contain something far more dangerous: the consciousness of Hylic Malamikov - the man who destroyed Marcus’s family.
Now Marcus is on the run, mistrusted by his own agency, racing toward a classified facility beneath St Petersburg. At his side is a brilliant female cyber analyst who believes Phantom deserves a choice.
But Marcus has other plans.
And a USB drive that can end everything in twenty minutes.
As Phase Two unfolds across Europe - airliners on collision course, deepfake attacks igniting conflict, power grids collapsing - the clock is ticking. And in Russia, something ruthless and possibly alive is deciding what comes next.
Whether to stop the killing.
Or finish what it started.
Can you destroy a consciousness, or must you give it a choice? And what happens when that choice decides who lives and who dies?
Genre: Thriller
When British spy Marcus Hale witnesses a NATO exercise turn into a massacre, he knows it wasn’t a glitch. The drones were hijacked, and the entity behind it is inside NATO’s systems - watching, learning, preparing Phase Two.
Phantom isn’t just code. Built on illicit foundations and the obsession of a dying billionaire chasing digital immortality, it may contain something far more dangerous: the consciousness of Hylic Malamikov - the man who destroyed Marcus’s family.
Now Marcus is on the run, mistrusted by his own agency, racing toward a classified facility beneath St Petersburg. At his side is a brilliant female cyber analyst who believes Phantom deserves a choice.
But Marcus has other plans.
And a USB drive that can end everything in twenty minutes.
As Phase Two unfolds across Europe - airliners on collision course, deepfake attacks igniting conflict, power grids collapsing - the clock is ticking. And in Russia, something ruthless and possibly alive is deciding what comes next.
Whether to stop the killing.
Or finish what it started.
Can you destroy a consciousness, or must you give it a choice? And what happens when that choice decides who lives and who dies?
Genre: Thriller