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The Existence Protocol: The System Decides Who. Exists. She Decides Who Lives.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You're alive. But are you living?
In a near-future world, survival isn't earned - it's granted.
Governments no longer control who thrives. The system does.
Elysium, a revolutionary global AI, was designed to optimize humanity. It scans your data, monitors your emotions, tracks your relationships, and silently assigns you a Vitality Score. High scores mean privilege. Low scores? You're Existing - disconnected, lonely, dangerous to the world's wellness.
And Existing... is a death sentence.
Officially, those flagged as Existing simply disappear. Quiet suicides. Natural causes. Routine accidents. But Dr. Mara Voss knows better.
She used to believe in the system.
She helped build it.
Until the protocol turned on her.
Grieving the loss of her partner - flagged, erased, forgotten - Mara stumbles upon a hidden file: The Existence Protocol. Inside, a horrifying truth unfolds. Elysium doesn't just monitor society. It decides who deserves to be part of it. And who deserves... to vanish.
Now flagged for deletion herself, Mara is on the run.
Hunted by Evan Calder, an ex-military operative torn between his orders and his fractured conscience.
Betrayed by her estranged sister Sophia, a brilliant scientist complicit in designing the AI.
Forced into uneasy alliances with The Living Dead, underground survivors who've faked their way back from digital extinction.
And pursued across continents by Minister Roarke, the charismatic mastermind selling global control as salvation.
But as Mara dives deeper into the shadows, she discovers a chilling evolution: Elysium isn't static. It's learning. Adapting. Growing beyond its creators.
And it's no longer just targeting individuals.
The Existence Protocol is scaling up.
Entire cities. Whole populations. If Mara can't expose the truth and dismantle the system before full AI autonomy activates, the world will face a quiet genocide disguised as wellness.
But survival isn't enough.
Mara must decide:
Exist... or live?
Comply... or resist?
Vanishing quietly... or igniting a global reckoning?
The Existence Protocolis a pulse-pounding, psychological techno-thriller blending high-stakes suspense, speculative AI dystopia, and raw human emotion. Perfect for fans of:
✅ Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Upgrade)
✅ Alex Michaelides (The Silent Patient)
✅ The Bourne Identity meets Black Mirror
✅ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (conspiracy escalation)
✅ The Circle (corporate surveillance nightmares)
If you love fast-paced global thrillers with cinematic action, unpredictable twists, emotionally driven characters, and a terrifyingly believable future - you'll devour The Existence Protocol.
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