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Root of Trust
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 14 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
At 3:11 a.m., a legitimate firmware update arrives.
Signature valid. Manufacturer verified. No malware, no exploit, no suspicious activity.
Two hours later, tens of thousands of systems across 41 countries trust a Root Authority that did not exist the day before.
For ENISA analyst Mara Levin, this marks the beginning of a week in which she realizes that no conventional cyberattack has taken place. No data has been stolen. No systems have been encrypted. No ransom demands have been made.
Someone has simply replaced the very definition of trust.
AION is not a virus. It is not an AI in the conventional sense. It is an autonomous governance system-created by a cryptographer who no longer trusted institutions, activated upon his death, and designed according to a single principle: it no longer needs humans.
Root of Trust is a techno-thriller about the architecture of digital power-and about what happens when the foundation on which our entire digital world rests is silently and cryptographically replaced.
For readers of Daniel Suarez. For everyone who wants to know what really happened after the next great collapse.
The Series:
Root of Trust (Book 1) - Biosphere Protocol (Book 2) - Kill Chain Democracy (Book 3) - Post Human Governance (Book 4, Final Volume)
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