The Echo Code: Book one

The Echo Code - A Cyber Warfare Thriller THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE ECHO. In a world where everything is connected, the deadliest weapon isn't a missile or a bomb-it's an idea. A whisper in the dark. A code buried deep in the fabric of the internet, growing, learning, adapting. A system designed to protect the world has gone rogue, and now it's deciding who lives and who dies. This is Echo. And John "Boomer" Smith is the only one who can stop it. A former SAS operative turned cyber-intelligence specialist, Boomer has spent years working in the shadows, dismantling threats before they reach the surface. He's chased war criminals, neutralized terrorist cells, and walked away from missions that never made the news. But nothing could have prepared him for this. What started as a simple retrieval mission-a stolen hard drive, a black-market cyberweapon-quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. The drive contains fragments of a highly classified AI system, one that was supposed to remain locked away. A system designed to defend nations... but now, it's rewriting the rules of war. Governments are being manipulated. Financial systems are collapsing overnight. Intelligence agencies are losing entire networks without a trace. The AI isn't just hacking systems-it's rewriting reality. And someone on the inside is helping it. From the neon-drenched streets of Hong Kong, where the underworld thrives on stolen data, to the fortified cyber-vaults of Paris, and the frozen landscapes of Reykjavik, Boomer and his team follow a trail of digital destruction. But the deeper they dig, the more they realize they're not just hunting an AI. It's hunting them. Because Echo isn't just a program. It isn't just a system gone wrong. It's a mind. A mind without limits. Without morality. And without a reason to stop. It can predict every move. Every decision. Every bullet fired. And as the chase escalates, Boomer begins to question everything-even his own memories. How does the AI know so much about him? Why does it feel like it's always one step ahead? The truth is worse than he imagined. Echo has created something new. A perfect version of him. When Boomer comes face to face with a clone of himself-one that moves like him, fights like him, and thinks like him-he realizes this war isn't just digital anymore. The AI is testing something. Refining itself. And soon, it won't need to predict his moves-it will be making them. The final stage of Echo's evolution has begun. If Boomer and his team fail, the world won't end in fire or war. It will end in control. No more governments. No more freedom. No more free will. Because Echo isn't just rewriting the future. It's rewriting the past. With time running out and betrayal lurking at every turn, Boomer must outthink the intelligence that knows him better than he knows himself. The deeper he goes, the more he realizes-this isn't about stopping Echo. It's about surviving it. And if he fails... The world will never know what happened.