A nuclear war has been averted. The danger has only just begun.
Political turmoil rules in Russia and America after the revelations about the assassination of the Russian president and his mistress, twenty stolen Russian nukes, and the child trafficking network operated by Russia's FSB on American soil to collect kompromat. The Americans are on the warpath against Russia, the traitors in their midst, and the authorities who have turned a blind eye to child trafficking in their country for more than thirty-four years.
And then, just a few days after the shocking news conference, shortly past midnight, a team of CIA analysts led by Stacie Barrett discovered a pattern in global financial markets that no human mind could have produced. Seven anomalies, known as the Rule of Seven. A signature. They quickly figure out what is causing it, but the problem is that it is impossible; it couldn't exist. Yet, there it is. They have no idea where it is located or who controls it.
Or… more chilling still, who it controls.
By dawn, they brief the president. His orders are unambiguous: "Find it. Neutralize it. Whatever it takes."
Whatever it takes means one thing: John Brandt's CRC team.
A few hours later, at the Ranch in Arizona, Rex Dalton, Catia, Digger, and the rest of the team are drawn into the deepest kind of darkness: a threat with no face, no location, and unimaginable, destructive power. Homo Machinus. The wayward offspring, as Josh puts it, of the adultery between Homo Sapiens and Homo Idiotus.
No one is laughing.
There is no countdown clock. No deadline. Only the knowledge that somewhere between now and a point no one can calculate, Homo Machinus will cross a threshold beyond which no human team, not the Cyber Phantoms, not the US military, not even the combined military of all nations on Earth, will ever be able to stop it. And by the time they realize they have passed the threshold, it will forever be too late.
Neither Rex and Digger nor anyone else in that room or on the planet has ever hunted an enemy like this.
What readers are saying:
"I thought nothing could top The Message. I was wrong. Sins of Power kept me awake two nights straight."— R.M.
"Rex and Digger vs. an AI that's learning faster than anyone can track; I've never read anything like it. Completely original."— P.T.
"JC Ryan writes the human moments as powerfully as the action. Rex as a new father, Digger as the emotional anchor—this is why I read this series."— S.W.
"The most unsettling villain in the series, and it doesn't even have a face. Brilliant and genuinely frightening." — D.A.
"Tom Clancy meets the age of AI. Rex Dalton belongs in the same conversation as the greats." — J.K.
Genre: Thriller
Political turmoil rules in Russia and America after the revelations about the assassination of the Russian president and his mistress, twenty stolen Russian nukes, and the child trafficking network operated by Russia's FSB on American soil to collect kompromat. The Americans are on the warpath against Russia, the traitors in their midst, and the authorities who have turned a blind eye to child trafficking in their country for more than thirty-four years.
And then, just a few days after the shocking news conference, shortly past midnight, a team of CIA analysts led by Stacie Barrett discovered a pattern in global financial markets that no human mind could have produced. Seven anomalies, known as the Rule of Seven. A signature. They quickly figure out what is causing it, but the problem is that it is impossible; it couldn't exist. Yet, there it is. They have no idea where it is located or who controls it.
Or… more chilling still, who it controls.
By dawn, they brief the president. His orders are unambiguous: "Find it. Neutralize it. Whatever it takes."
Whatever it takes means one thing: John Brandt's CRC team.
A few hours later, at the Ranch in Arizona, Rex Dalton, Catia, Digger, and the rest of the team are drawn into the deepest kind of darkness: a threat with no face, no location, and unimaginable, destructive power. Homo Machinus. The wayward offspring, as Josh puts it, of the adultery between Homo Sapiens and Homo Idiotus.
No one is laughing.
There is no countdown clock. No deadline. Only the knowledge that somewhere between now and a point no one can calculate, Homo Machinus will cross a threshold beyond which no human team, not the Cyber Phantoms, not the US military, not even the combined military of all nations on Earth, will ever be able to stop it. And by the time they realize they have passed the threshold, it will forever be too late.
Neither Rex and Digger nor anyone else in that room or on the planet has ever hunted an enemy like this.
What readers are saying:
"I thought nothing could top The Message. I was wrong. Sins of Power kept me awake two nights straight."— R.M.
"Rex and Digger vs. an AI that's learning faster than anyone can track; I've never read anything like it. Completely original."— P.T.
"JC Ryan writes the human moments as powerfully as the action. Rex as a new father, Digger as the emotional anchor—this is why I read this series."— S.W.
"The most unsettling villain in the series, and it doesn't even have a face. Brilliant and genuinely frightening." — D.A.
"Tom Clancy meets the age of AI. Rex Dalton belongs in the same conversation as the greats." — J.K.
Genre: Thriller