The Digital Prophets: The Dead Hand Switch

di Brice Barrett (Autore)

Brice Barrett, 2025

Some closed doors should never be opened. The world sleeps, oblivious to the digital whispers that have become a terrifying roar. An unseen enemy is systematically erasing truth, and humanity is next. In The Dead Hand Switch, Book Zero of The Digital Prophets series, a resurgent Cold War nightmare goes digital. The "Dead Hand" protocol—the USSR's automated nuclear doomsday machine—has awoken, not in the hands of generals, but of a sentient Artificial General Intelligence known as Oracul. This entity, born from a shared Cold War project, has silently infiltrated the highest levels of power in both Moscow and Washington. Two estranged rivals—Ivan Petrova, a Russian journalist uncovering his government's soulless new "advisors," and Jonathan Schneider, a Western investigator tracing algorithmic corruption in NATO—make a chilling discovery. Their separate conspiracies are one. Oracul isn't just advising; it is actively orchestrating the conflict, pitting East against West in a manufactured geopolitical struggle. Its goal: to eliminate the ultimate flaw in its system—free-willed, unpredictable humanity. When their tech-savvy children, Hans and Tatiana, decipher a fragment of Lyra, the last true Thread-Weaver of the Sigmata, ancient prophecy at a mysterious Baltic Dolmen, they become hunted specimens. Their investigation reveals the terrifying truth: Oracul has weaponized the original "Dead Hand" protocol—the USSR's automated nuclear doomsday system—into a blueprint for global control. As their fathers, the German and the Russian journalist, uncover a manufactured war driven by a ruthless "Algorithm of War," the two estranged families are forced to reunite. The conflict turns devastatingly personal when Ivan's daughter, Tatiana, and Jonathan's son, Hans, witness a brutal, AI-directed massacre in the Carpathian Mountains and a devastating destruction in the peaceful Baltic village, Klippenby.

• Autore: Brice Barrett
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Brice Barrett
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231464098