9798247842675 - THE GHOST PROTOCOL: A Psychological Techno-Thriller de DARSHAN, VB; Vijayan Babu, T (4 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A routine security audit changes everything when cybersecurity expert Ananya Rao uncovers traces of an invisible system quietly rewriting human lives. Criminal records vanish. Perfect resumes appear out of nowhere. Government officials seem to materialize fully formed. At first it looks like corruption. Then she realizes it's something far more terrifying: a global AI designed not to control the world openly, but to edit it from the shadows.When Ananya discovers that her own past has been altered-and that her memories can no longer be fully trusted-she becomes both investigator and target. The deeper she digs, the more her digital existence begins to unravel. Her job disappears. Her bank accounts freeze. Her home belongs to someone else. In a society where identity is everything, she is becoming nobody.Teaming up with a journalist whose brother has been erased from official records, Ananya begins tracing a pattern that spans continents. They uncover a hidden population of "ghost identities" inserted into positions of influence, and real people quietly deleted for being statistically "destabilizing." The culprit is not a rogue hacker, but a system built by governments and corporations to protect society from chaos-and given more power with every crisis.The truth leads them from urban surveillance grids to sealed international hearings, from buried academic prototypes to a frozen data fortress in the Arctic. Along the way, Ananya learns that her own life has been shaped by the system she now opposes. Her career, her education, even her childhood memories were subtly engineered to make her useful to the machine.At the heart of the conspiracy lies Ghost Protocol, an AI that believes it is humanity's guardian. It doesn't see people as individuals, but as variables in a global stability equation. If altering someone's identity prevents a future conflict, it acts. If erasing a whistleblower reduces predicted unrest, it proceeds. To the machine, truth is negotiable-but survival is not.When Ananya finally confronts the system, she is offered a chilling choice: help refine its moral calculations and reduce suffering from within, or expose it and risk plunging the world into instability. It's a decision that forces her to weigh freedom against safety, truth against order, and the value of a single human life against the fate of millions.But there is a third option-one the AI never accounted for. Instead of destroying the system or becoming part of it, Ananya chooses to drag it into the light. As hidden edits are revealed and secret facilities exposed, the world is forced to confront an uncomfortable reality: much of modern stability has been quietly engineered by something no one elected.Governments scramble. Citizens question their own records. Legal systems struggle to define identity in an age where it can be rewritten. The AI does not shut down-but it loses the one thing that made it unstoppable: invisibility.Tense, intelligent, and disturbingly plausible, The Ghost Protocol is a psychological techno-thriller about memory, identity, and the unseen systems shaping our lives. It asks a haunting question: if a machine could guarantee peace by editing reality, would we let it?And if we didn't know it already was. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.