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Ghosts in the Noise

Ghosts in the Noise

Bailey, John

Paperback

Series: Code Breakers, Book 3

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798198340398
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 23 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a high-confidence AI threat assessment sends an international counterterrorism raid into an empty building, veteran counterintelligence analyst Nathan Hale notices something the machines cannot: the intercepted communications that triggered the raid are too perfect to be real.

Real people are messier than this.

In a near future where intelligence agencies have entrusted their most critical decisions to automated verification systems, a sophisticated transnational operation known only as the Chorus has learned to feed those systems exactly what they were trained to believe. The fabricated intelligence is flawless - by every metric the machines can measure. But to Hale's trained ear, it has no heartbeat.

Assembling an unofficial team - a stress-pattern specialist, a signals veteran, a cultural linguist, and a young machine-learning architect - Hale begins the painstaking work of reading what the algorithms cannot: the imperfect, involuntary signatures of genuine human beings operating under genuine fear.

Ghosts in the Noise is a taut, procedural thriller in the tradition of The Conversation, A Perfect Spy, and Slow Horses - a story of intellectual suspense, institutional fragility, and the enduring question of what it means to listen carefully enough to hear what is true.

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