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Zero Protocol
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Ankit Bhandawat
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world of biting grey and aggressive cold, memory is the only currency-and the ultimate poison.
Investigator Valerius arrives at the Aethelgard Institute, a brutalist monolith of black glass carved into a mountain's peak, to hunt for a ghost. A Tier One hazard named Zephyrine has vanished from a sealed cell, leaving behind only the scent of a fire that hasn't happened yet. But Valerius isn't just chasing a missing woman; he is haunted by the soot beneath his fingernails and the shadow of a wife who was made of ash and moonlight.
As he descends into the Silent Sequence, the clinical brightness of the archives reveals a terrifying truth: the Zero Protocol is an ossuary of the mind where human trauma is harvested to stabilize a dying world. Hidden conspiracies bleed into his own fractured consciousness, and the line between man and machine begins to dissolve.
What if the investigation isn't a search for the truth, but the final step in your own deletion?
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