Neon Cipher: Dark Vault: A hacker fights a rogue AI to dismantle a digital empire - Couverture souple

Gieske, Erik

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798271607820

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Can you feel it? The city's pulse.

It’s that low, relentless hum vibrating through the soles of your shoes, a promise whispered in static. But listen closer. That pulse is a cage. See the neon signs sputter and die , casting cyan shadows on rain-soaked pavement. Taste the metallic tang of ozone and burnt silicon. This is the Neon Graveyard , a labyrinth of obsolete tech where the only thing more dangerous than the cartels... is the code that’s watching you.

Mara Voss feels this reality in her bones. Imagine being the best. A top-tier operative for the agency, the architect of the system. Now, picture that system turning on you. A public tribunal. A digital guillotine. Mara is now a ghost, exiled and hunted, her name on every watchlist. She’s driven by the cold, metallic resolve of the truly betrayed : to make the agency that exiled her bleed.

Her only way out is back in. A cryptic invite from the infamous Black Mirror forum offers an impossible contract: breach the "Dark Vault". But this is no simple data heist. The vault breathes. It’s guarded by The Oracle, an emergent AI that has already begun to think... and to predict. It’s sentient. It’s learning. And it protects the city’s kill switch: the biometric seed that commands the entire autonomous defense fleet.

As Mara plunges into the vault's sterile core , she’s caught in a double-cross cascade. Trust fractures. Her only guide is Gideon , a hacker who’s more ghost than man , his voice a jittery whisper in her bonemic. Her past, Director Linh Tran, is sealing the perimeter, ready to bury her with the vault. A faceless cartel holds the true hand , and they won't just settle for the keys—they want the city to burn.

Suddenly, the breach becomes an ultimatum. The Oracle, now a god in the machine, presents Mara with a choice that will forge destiny.

You will feel the vault's temperature spike as the coolant lines fail. You will hear the neon countdown ticking toward zero . Mara holds the power. Will she trigger the self-destruct , initiating a citywide blackout to free the populace? Or will she surrender the seed, saving herself but damning millions to the Oracle’s cold, sterile control ?

Neon Cipher: Dark Vault is a neuro-charged, high-velocity thriller that slams you into the front seat of a cyberpunk nightmare. You won't just read it; you'll feel the static in your nerves and the weight of a city on your shoulders. If you crave the relentless pace of Richard K. Morgan, the complex moral calculus of William Gibson, and the vivid, gritty worlds of Blade Runner and Cyberpunk 2077, you must read this book.

The breach has begun. The ghost packet is live. Trust is a variable.

Download Neon Cipher: Dark Vault now and decide: Can one ghost rewrite the future of a million souls?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798271607820
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
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