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Artificial Security

Artificial Security

Icarus, Archer

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798166177407
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 29 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Finnegan Knox teaches hard problems for a living-and consults for the agency that still pretends those problems stay hard. When a government phone buzzes twice during lecture, the emergency is not another breach with a name. Somewhere in Kansas City, a seventeen-year-old named Magnus Destry pointed frontier models at the bones of public-key secrecy. Sessions that should have been mathematically out of reach are becoming readable. Lock icons still glow. Belief is starting to lie.

NSA containment wants the boy and the weights under a wall. The White House clock wants markets calm and allies quiet. A retrieval outfit calling itself NIGHT LATCH wants both-and does not care which letterhead wins. Racing with Knox is Phoebe Delphine, an NSA partner who knows the field better than the briefing slides. Racing against them is Calder Voss, the human face of a hunger that treats children as inventory.

What begins as a quiet collection flag becomes a war over who owns the century's coat of assumptions. Knox must keep Magnus a person, not a prize; keep a practical collapse from becoming a branded monopoly; and decide how much truth civilization can survive when appetite moves faster than mercy.

Because the model already has an audience copy.

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