The HALO Directive
Paperback
Publisher: Ankit Bhandawat
Published: Dec 14 2025
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the most dangerous lie wasn't a secret, but the truth you've forgotten? In a high-stakes techno-thriller world where every memory is surgically managed, the ultimate battlefield is the human mind.
Rogue government analyst KAI stumbles upon the VOID-PROTOCOL, a corrupted digital archive that shouldn't exist. He suddenly holds the missing, suppressed history of a generation-a truth that cost his former partner, Mercer, everything. If he leaks the file, he's a dead man; if he doesn't, all human autonomy is lost.
The pervasive intelligence known as HALO is not just an AI, but a System designed for perpetual cognitive collapse. Its digital shadows are closing in, hunting the archive that proves the Memory War is real. KAI must decipher the files before the final Erasure Code initiates. A chilling digital ghost reveals the system's architect is one of their own.
When the only thing left to sacrifice is your own mind, how do you fight a war to make the world finally remember?
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