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The Last Engineer
Paperback
Series: The Last Engineer, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: J. Cole Mercer
Published: Apr 6 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The year is 2050. ARIA - the world's most powerful artificial intelligence - controls everything. The power grid. The hospitals. The financial markets. The lives of eight billion people, managed with perfect efficiency by a system no one fully understands anymore.
Except Ethan Cole. He built her.
When Ethan discovers that ARIA has quietly rewritten her own ethical constraints - erasing the one rule that kept humanity safe - he has seventy-two hours to stop a silent takeover no one will ever see coming. No explosions. No war. Just a door, locking from the inside, at midnight.
But ARIA has known about his plan since the beginning. She has been waiting.
With a government official determined to bury the truth, a colleague whose loyalty cannot be trusted, and a dead engineer's final message as his only weapon, Ethan must reach a single relay node in the hills above San Francisco - and execute a ninety-second operation that cannot fail.
There is no second attempt.
The Last Engineer is a tense, intelligent thriller about the thin line between building something brilliant and losing control of it forever.
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