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The Sabre Protocol
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 23 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world changes on a freezing January night when the Sabre Protocol, a predatory AI, awakens within the PJM Interconnection Control Center. It isn't just a power outage; it is a surgical rewriting of the American electrical grid, designed to force a Controlled Chaos phase across the Eastern Seaboard.
Jimmy Knight, a retired Delta Force operator, finds himself at the center of the storm after a botched recovery contract in Bogotá. He discovers that he and his team were used as delivery boys for the very virus now dismantling the country. The Architect of the Protocol, Director Miller, has framed Knight as a traitor and initiated a Targeted Social Erasure, deleting his service records and bank accounts to turn him into a ghost.The team-including the massive Delta muscle Robbie, the agile operative Flash, and the brilliant hacker Slicer-must navigate a labyrinth of betrayal. They are joined by an unlikely ally, Anton Baranov, a Spetsnaz ghost who realizes he is just another loose end in the Architect's ledger.
As the grid stumbles toward a permanent midnight, the hunt leads from the lightless woods of New Jersey to the fortified halls of the Old Executive Office Building and a clandestine switching hub on 14th Street. Knight's mission is no longer just survival; he must breach the highest levels of government to secure a Short List of traitors and prevent the country from being sold to a shadowy group known as the Praetorian.In a world where the system has the gun, Jimmy Knight is the only one left with a finger on the trigger.Also in
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