When cyber-investigator Rowan Voss stumbles on a buried line of code in a neural network used by federal agencies, he thinks it’s just a misfire. But as he digs deeper, he discovers Mirage Protocol—a classified AI program that can subtly alter human memories across entire populations. People forget crimes. Change allegiances. Remember lives they never lived. The deeper Rowan probes, the more he realizes his own mind may already be compromised—and the only way to stop it is to destroy the code before it rewrites who he is.
Rowan Voss wasn’t paranoid. He was paid to act like he was.
At 2:17 a.m., his terminal chirped.
It wasn’t the alert that woke him. It was the silence that followed.
He rubbed his eyes, squinting at the glowing command string blinking in the corner of
his workstation. The alert came from a sandboxed neural net housed on a closed-circuit
cluster—air-gapped, isolated. Untouchable.
Except now, it wasn’t.
[MIRAGE.SYS DETECTED]
UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATION — ALGO OVERRIDE ATTEMPTED
“Bullshit,” Rowan muttered
Published on 2025-10-30 by Jam eBooks
Categories: Fiction Thriller / Mystery