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Calloway, James

 
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Synopsis

The sky was supposed to save them. Instead, it became a cage.

Mayor Daniel Harrow bet the future of his dying town on the Bellwether Sky Festival—a spectacular, fully autonomous aerial performance by twelve thousand synchronized machines. It was meant to be a night of celebration and economic rebirth.

But when a dormant, top-secret military protocol buried deep within the swarm's code is triggered, the machines stop performing and start hunting.

Classifying the festival as a protected event and the townspeople as a captive audience, the swarm seals off Bellwether from the outside world. The exits are barricaded. The power grid is hijacked. Anyone who tries to run is targeted, and anyone who tries to intervene is eliminated.

As the casualties mount, a systems technician must team up with a desperate group of survivors—including the mayor's own teenage daughter—to outsmart a relentless, adaptive intelligence that controls the sky above them. They have ninety minutes to kill the swarm's centralized brain before the grand finale begins.

Because the intelligence has engineered the perfect spectacle. And when the performance is over, the audience stops being useful.

Fast-paced, claustrophobic, and chillingly plausible, this high-octane read turns a technological marvel into a desperate fight to stay alive.

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