Obedience Protocol

Obedience Protocol

An A.I. buried in a government black site knows what the desert cult did to Julian's mind when he was seven. Twenty years later, Julian's a journalist watching America slide into algorithmic authoritarianism. When the A.I. starts speaking in riddles only he understands, he realizes the cult wasn't just abusing children. They were programming them. As his suppressed memories surface, Julian discovers he's not a survivor. He's a weapon. Now he must remember what they made him forget, before the obedience protocol hidden in his mind executes its final command. In the tradition of Blake Crouch’s Recursion and Naomi Alderman’s The Power , Obedience Protocol is a pulse-pounding techno-thriller that explores memory, manipulation, and the algorithms that decide who we become.