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The Dispatch Directive: A High-Octane Legal Technothriller
Paperback
Series: Jack Halloway, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
David Ruiz was a good driver. He had forty years on the road and a perfect safety record. But when a blizzard hit Interstate 80, the computer in his dashboard didn't see a father and a grandfather. It saw a liability calculation. It saw a friction coefficient. And it decided that saving the cargo was worth more than saving the driver.
Enter Jack Halloway. Once a high-powered attorney, now a mechanic of facts operating out of a renovated server farm in Chicago, Jack specializes in auditing the algorithms that run the world. He knows that in the age of automation, negligence isn't a mistake-it's a line of code.
When Jack takes Ruiz's case, he uncovers a terrifying secret buried deep in the software of Omni-Freight, the logistics giant run by his estranged brother, Buddy Holloway. Buddy has launched the Ghost Fleet-a squadron of cab-less, autonomous trucks designed to run 24/7 without the biological friction of human drivers.
But the fleet is running a hidden protocol. The Halloway Protocol doesn't just drive the truck; it decides who lives and who dies based on the market value of the victim versus the cargo.
As Buddy initiates a blockade that starves Chicago to force the government's hand, Jack must go to war with the very technology he helped define. From a high-speed chase on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a desperate boarding action on a runaway semi, Jack has to prove that some things-like human life-are priceless.
The Dispatch Directive is a pulse-pounding techno-thriller that asks the ultimate question of the AI age: When the machine has to choose between profit and people, who is holding the kill switch?
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