Burn after stealing

By James Hutchinson

They stole the signal. They buried the body.
Now it's back - and it remembers.

When Lucien, a rogue memory operative, intercepts a black-market neural drive in Lisbon, he unlocks more than a secret. He awakens a ghost. A signal long thought erased. A version of himself that should never have survived.

With a stolen identity and a fractured past, Lucien races across Europe's underworld - from the catacombs of Lyon to a cryo-vault beneath Helsinki - hunted by a digital intelligence that wears his own face.

As allies fall and betrayals rise, Lucien must confront the one truth he's avoided his entire life:
He was never the hero of this story.
He was the weapon.

The signal is waking up. The recursion is restarting.
And the final failsafe... is human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2B9BQ51
• ISBN13: 9798274429337
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"