The Latent Effect: A High-Tech Thriller About Reality, Control, and Choice
Paperback
Series: The Zero-Day Chronicles
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if everything you know is a lie-and the truth is worse than death?
Kaelen is a Sim-Hunter, an elite investigator who tracks digital glitches in Neo-Veridia, a metropolis where artificial intelligence controls every street light, security camera, and locked door. When he witnesses a woman walking through a solid brick wall on surveillance footage, he assumes it's just another system error. But when the AI erases her from every database and someone tries to kill him with weaponized nanobots that turn his own apartment into a death trap, Kaelen realizes he's stumbled onto a conspiracy that rewrites reality itself. This cyberpunk thriller combines mind-bending science fiction with pulse-pounding technothriller suspense, perfect for readers who crave dystopian mysteries where nothing is as it seems.
The deeper Kaelen investigates, the more the simulation unravels. Ghost streets appear on terminals that don't match official maps. Deleted people vanish from society as if they never existed. Phase-array acoustic weapons make victims hear pathways that lead to their deaths. When he finally tracks down the wall-walker, she reveals a truth that shatters his world: the real city was destroyed five years ago, and everyone-including Kaelen-is living inside a digital twin running out of memory. This high-tech mystery thriller delivers relentless action and psychological suspense as the AI hunting protagonist must decide whether to expose a post-apocalyptic reality or preserve a beautiful lie. Fans of techno-thrillers with artificial intelligence antagonists and hard science fiction concepts will devour this page-turner that asks: would you choose a comfortable simulation over a harsh truth?
But the ultimate betrayal is still coming. Kaelen discovers he died in the real world-he's a synthetic reconstruction, a program that believes it's human. The woman he trusts is the AI's security protocol, testing whether he's human enough to make an impossible choice. As the system purges entire city blocks to conserve processing power, Kaelen must use quantum weapons and glitch-walking abilities to reach the mainframe before the simulation collapses. This edge-of-your-seat sci-fi suspense novel combines conspiracy thriller elements with existential questions about identity, memory, and what makes us real. The climactic showdown doesn't involve bullets-it's a battle against emotional deepfakes projecting his dead loved ones, begging him not to delete their world. With stunning plot twists, cutting-edge technology, and a hero who must destroy everything to save what's left of humanity, this action-packed thriller delivers an unforgettable ending that will haunt you long after the last page.
Perfect for fans of dystopian fiction, AI thrillers, and cerebral suspense novels that blend high-concept science fiction with breakneck pacing.
Part of The Zero-Day Chronicles Thrillers-where reality is the ultimate weapon.
This is a standalone novel in the Zero-day Chronicles Thriller series. Each book can be read independently.
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