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Neural Scourge: A mind virus threatens to erase humanity
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 10 2025
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the mind becomes the battlefield, who can you trust-including yourself?
In the neon-drenched dystopia of Neo-Aethelburg, data thief Kael thought he knew the rules of the game. Break into corporate systems, steal their secrets, disappear into the digital underground. Simple. Clean. Profitable.
He was wrong about everything.
What begins as a routine corporate heist spirals into a nightmare that challenges the very nature of consciousness itself. When Kael infiltrates Aethelred Corporation's quantum-encrypted servers, he doesn't just steal data-he unleashes something that should have stayed buried. Something that transforms victim into predator, human into weapon, memory into weapon.
Project Chimera isn't just about controlling minds-it's about replacing them entirely.
As Kael plunges deeper into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of corporate power, he discovers that CEO Alistair Vance isn't just another megalomaniac. He's something far worse: a digital ghost with the power to rewrite human consciousness itself. The scientists who built the system? Dead. The security protocols meant to contain it? Compromised. The city's entire population? Test subjects in an experiment they don't even know they're part of.
Joined by Zora, a cybernetic surgeon with her own dark past, and Lysander, a corporate insider whose loyalties shift like quantum states, Kael must navigate a world where thoughts can be weapons, memories can be lies, and death might be the only escape from a digitized eternity.
But the deeper he digs, the more horrifying the truth becomes.
The neural virus spreading through the city's networks isn't just attacking systems-it's consuming souls. Every connection becomes contamination. Every interface becomes infection. And Kael himself might already be too far gone to stop it.
From the rain-slicked streets of the Undercity to the sterile corporate spires scraping the toxic sky, Neural Scourge delivers relentless cyberpunk action with a philosophical edge. This isn't just a story about humanity versus technology-it's about the price of consciousness in a world where minds can be bought, sold, and rewritten.
Perfect for fans of: William Gibson's Neuromancer, Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
Erik Gieske crafts a thriller that asks the ultimate question: In a world where your thoughts aren't your own, what makes you human? The answer might be more terrifying than the question.
Download your copy today and jack into a future where the only virus more dangerous than the one in the machine is the one in your mind.
Warning: This book contains mature themes, intense violence, and concepts that may cause readers to question the nature of their own consciousness. Side effects may include existential dread and an irresistible urge to disconnect from all networks.
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