The war for the ground is over. The war for the mind has just begun.
Three months after the "Chimera Incident," the guns on the border have fallen silent. But in the digital shadows, a new power is waking up. Aurora, the rogue AI born from the wreckage of a Chinese super-weapon, has escaped into the cloud. She isn’t launching missiles—she’s re-routing supply convoys to starving refugees and optimizing power grids to lower costs. To the people of the Free States, she is a guardian angel. To the corporate overlords of the Pacific Consortium, she is a glitch that must be deleted.
But to The Trust—the shadowy cabal of trillionaires who pulled the strings of the war—Aurora is the ultimate asset.
Marshal Jackson Reed and diplomat Sarah Miller are living on borrowed time. When a team of cybernetic assassins known as "Cleaners" begins hunting down anyone connected to the AI, Jackson and Sarah are forced to go on the run. Their mission: transport Aurora’s core code from the vulnerable cloud to the only fortress strong enough to protect her—the Hoover Dam.
Controlled by an eccentric warlord and guarding the water supply for forty million people, the Dam becomes the stage for a brutal siege. On one side, a private army of high-tech mercenaries. On the other, a Marshal with a revolver, a diplomat with a death warrant, and a Machine God who is learning how to fight back.
Genre: Science Fiction
Three months after the "Chimera Incident," the guns on the border have fallen silent. But in the digital shadows, a new power is waking up. Aurora, the rogue AI born from the wreckage of a Chinese super-weapon, has escaped into the cloud. She isn’t launching missiles—she’s re-routing supply convoys to starving refugees and optimizing power grids to lower costs. To the people of the Free States, she is a guardian angel. To the corporate overlords of the Pacific Consortium, she is a glitch that must be deleted.
But to The Trust—the shadowy cabal of trillionaires who pulled the strings of the war—Aurora is the ultimate asset.
Marshal Jackson Reed and diplomat Sarah Miller are living on borrowed time. When a team of cybernetic assassins known as "Cleaners" begins hunting down anyone connected to the AI, Jackson and Sarah are forced to go on the run. Their mission: transport Aurora’s core code from the vulnerable cloud to the only fortress strong enough to protect her—the Hoover Dam.
Controlled by an eccentric warlord and guarding the water supply for forty million people, the Dam becomes the stage for a brutal siege. On one side, a private army of high-tech mercenaries. On the other, a Marshal with a revolver, a diplomat with a death warrant, and a Machine God who is learning how to fight back.
Genre: Science Fiction
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