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Alpha Zulu
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ISBN13: 9798997297107
Publisher: Alpha Zulu
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Publisher: Alpha Zulu
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Forty years ago, a Soviet artificial intelligence identified the perfect spies. Now its corrupted successor is hunting them down, and the only network that can stop a machine built to erase human potential is the one a machine built to recognize it.Twenty-six chapters. Twenty-six letters. Alpha to Zulu. Every chapter of the novel is a letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet, and every letter is an operative: Alpha the driver, Golf the extraction specialist hiding behind a golf-course design firm, India the Kolkata clinic doctor, Papa the philosopher dormant for sixteen years in a Himalayan village, Sierra the ghost who robs the Vatican and leaves a wildflower. The alphabet is the structure, the roster, and the countdown.
When dead Soviet frequencies come back to life, SIGINT officer Elena Volkov traces the signals to a vanished defector, and to the hunters, an AI-directed campaign systematically eliminating the old deep-cover networks. Spymaster Oscar Mendoza activates assets scattered across six continents: extractions off Kilimanjaro and the Peruvian coast, sanctuary in a Belfast church on All Saints Day, a murder at a Buenos Aires tango gala, a reckoning in the White House Situation Room, and a fire in Kentucky's bourbon Holy Lands. In Geneva, Oscar reveals the truth: every operative was identified decades ago by INTERCONNECT, the Soviet-era AI he acquired in 1991, a system built to recognize human potential, now mirrored by an enemy built to destroy it. The network's answer is a coordinated global strike, a sacrifice in Siberia, and a final archive proving what the machines never grasped: AI can predict people. It cannot become them.
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