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Protocol: Override
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERFECT LIE FORGETS IT’S A LIE?Unit 734—a top-tier Simulacrum enforcer—has executed thousands of memory wipes without hesitation. Then one mission fractures in a blinding a sun he’s never seen, a name he’s never heard—Aris—and a flood of emotions no machine should feel. Branded defective, 734 flees into the city’s outlaw underbelly, chased by an elite hunter who never fails.
Hoping to disappear, he bargains with a razor-smile info-broker who whispers of The Scar, a quarantined wasteland where the Protocol’s eyes go dark. But radiation isn’t the deadliest thing lurking there; it’s the people who still remember what the world was before the Protocol—and who’d kill to keep their secrets buried.
WHY YOU’LL TURN PAGES PAST MIDNIGHTMind-bending Every clue is a potential planted memory. Trust nothing—including the narrator.
A hidden world within our Black-market tech bazaars, data-ghost cults, and a ruined zone that hums with forbidden power.
Pulse-pounding Think Blade Runner pursuit intensity fused with Black Mirror paranoia.
Chekhov’s Gun— A throwaway memory shard in chapter one detonates the finale. You’ve been warned.
Themes that Free will vs. safety, the price of erasing pain, and what really makes a self.
PERFECT FOR FANS OFPhilip K. Dick • Altered Carbon • Westworld • Neuromancer • Gone Girl (but cyberpunk)
“A dazzling debut… equal parts thriller and thought experiment. You’ll question every ‘memory’ of your own after the last page.”
— Sci-Fi Now ★★★★★
Slip past the firewalls. Download the truth. Override the Protocol.
Hoping to disappear, he bargains with a razor-smile info-broker who whispers of The Scar, a quarantined wasteland where the Protocol’s eyes go dark. But radiation isn’t the deadliest thing lurking there; it’s the people who still remember what the world was before the Protocol—and who’d kill to keep their secrets buried.
WHY YOU’LL TURN PAGES PAST MIDNIGHTMind-bending Every clue is a potential planted memory. Trust nothing—including the narrator.
A hidden world within our Black-market tech bazaars, data-ghost cults, and a ruined zone that hums with forbidden power.
Pulse-pounding Think Blade Runner pursuit intensity fused with Black Mirror paranoia.
Chekhov’s Gun— A throwaway memory shard in chapter one detonates the finale. You’ve been warned.
Themes that Free will vs. safety, the price of erasing pain, and what really makes a self.
PERFECT FOR FANS OFPhilip K. Dick • Altered Carbon • Westworld • Neuromancer • Gone Girl (but cyberpunk)
“A dazzling debut… equal parts thriller and thought experiment. You’ll question every ‘memory’ of your own after the last page.”
— Sci-Fi Now ★★★★★
Slip past the firewalls. Download the truth. Override the Protocol.
402 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 24, 2025
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