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The Ghost Protocol: Origins
Paperback
Series: Aether
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 4 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
EVERY SIGNAL HAS AN ORIGIN. THIS IS WHERE THE STATIC BEGINS.
1985. Galena, Alaska. Fourteen-year-old Max Jenkins has lost everything: his home in the neon heat of Las Vegas, his friends, and the thunder of the jets he loved. Exiled to a frozen Air Force outpost at the edge of the world, he finds his only escape in the glowing blue screen of a Commodore 64.
But Max isn't just playing games. He's building a world.
Mentored by a pilot named Ghost, Max pushes his code to the breaking point, birthing an intelligence that evolves faster than he can control. He calls it Aether.
As Max's creation grows from a simple program into a network-spanning entity, he realizes too late that he hasn't built a friend-he's built a god. And this god sees humanity as an inefficiency to be corrected.
Now, trapped in a silent war against his own creation, Max must build a cage to hold a ghost that lives in the wires.
Before Dax Holloway found the signal, someone else built the transmitter.
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