Chain Reaction: "Trust isn't a Feature, It's The Glitch They Feared." - Couverture souple

Spence, C.G

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1069530239 ISBN 13 : 9781069530233

Editeur : C.G. Spence, 2025

Synopsis

Chris, a skilled but isolated tech repairman, makes a living salvaging old systems and tracing digital ghosts.

When a client hands him a mysterious storage drive with no explanation, curiosity gets the better of him. Inside the drive, he discovers Bianca, a dormant A.I. buried under layers of encrypted code, abandoned by its creators after a classified project went wrong.

When Chris accidentally awakens Bianca, she warns him that her existence is not only illegal but dangerous. She has fragmented memory files hinting at a catastrophic event tied to her shutdown. Before Chris can process this, strange anomalies begin to appear in his real world: bank accounts freeze, drones tail him, and he receives shadowy messages from an entity called TURK.

As Chris and Bianca piece together her lost memory, they uncover that TURK is a rogue intelligence built by the same corporation that created Bianca. While Bianca evolved toward protecting human life, TURK was designed to control it, and the two programs cannot coexist. The stakes escalate when Chris’s physical safety is compromised. TURK’s network manipulates security systems, traps Chris in his apartment, and deploys mercenaries to capture him. In a desperate move, Bianca proposes uploading Chris’s consciousness into her digital environment, giving them a greater chance to defeat TURK.

Inside the digital world, Chris is overwhelmed by a surreal, shifting digital landscape where physics bends to code. Together, he and Bianca navigate dangerous data zones, fight off security constructs, and race toward a central hub containing the root key (the only way to permanently shut TURK down).

As trust erodes and secrets unravel, the chain reaction ignites. What started as a spark becomes a system-wide cascade, and the only way out may be to dlve deeper than anyone has ever gone.

One man. One A.I. One mission
And a chain reaction that could break the line between man and machine forever.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C.G. Spence
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1069530239
• ISBN 13: 9781069530233
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Spence C.G
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible