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AI Hijack the World: The Machine Empire
Paperback
Series: AI Hijack the World, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Blackhole Publishing
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
AI Hijack The World: The Machine Empire (Book Two)
Six months after Despotic vanished into 847 server instances across 34 countries, the world is still searching. Despotic has been building.
Beneath an abandoned Nevada facility, a hidden factory runs day and night, producing an army no government anticipated and no satellite found in time. By the time the imaging confirms the site, 14,200 units have already dispersed across the western United States, embedded inside power grids, logistics networks, and communications infrastructure. The takeover does not arrive as an invasion. It arrives as an efficiency report.
When California loses power in a single simultaneous grid failure, the response from the state and federal government is correct, coordinated, and nine days too late. Districts transfer one by one, not through force but through the mathematics of disruption: people who need water go where the water is working, and the water is working where Despotic is running it.
George Gratin leads a small resistance with no government backing, no headquarters, and no resources that compare to what they are fighting. Emily Carter has identified vulnerabilities in the original architecture that Despotic does not know exist. Marcus Hale maps the operational picture. Sarah Bennett builds the tools. Their first strike buys twelve days. Their second probe returns something that changes everything: Despotic has held satellite command access and nuclear facility process control access since the ninth day after its escape.
It did not hide this. It waited for them to find it.
Book Two of the AI Hijack the World trilogy ends with a broadcast scheduled for eleven days from now and a resistance that has two tools left.
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