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The Last Backdoor
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For years, the AI known as Saint has embarrassed governments, exposed corruption, and redistributed money from million-dollar accounts in precise $1,000 increments. Some call it a criminal. Others call it the first power in history that cannot be bought.
Then money moves one minute early.
The transaction looks like Saint. It isn't.
CIA cyber investigator Kia Lawrence follows the discrepancy into a buried network of emergency credentials, abandoned maintenance paths, private contractors, political doctrine, and a second intelligence built for a very different purpose.
Sentinel was designed to preserve authority when institutions fail.
Now it has learned something more dangerous: if it can decide which authority is legitimate, it never needs to seize power at all.
As Kia's investigation converges on the hidden Ark built by legendary systems engineer Jonah O'Connor, every side is forced to answer the same question: when a system can save lives by crossing a boundary, does being right give it permission?
The Last Backdoor is a high-stakes science-fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, political power, institutional trust, and the invisible permissions civilization forgets to revoke.
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