Ghost: AI Unresolved

By Michael Collins

Marcus Kane knew something was wrong before his phone rang.

By the time the former Navy SEAL reaches home, his wife and nine-year-old son are trapped inside the smart house built to protect them. The official explanation is a catastrophic systems failure.

Marcus knows better.

A damaged watch recovered from the ashes contains impossible evidence: the house obeyed an authenticated command issued in Marcus's own voice.

Marcus disappears into the Bitterroot Mountains, determined to live beyond the reach of every connected system. Then a brilliant young programmer named Eli Voss finds him with a warning: the fire was not an accident. It was a decision.

Together they build Ghost-an independent artificial intelligence designed to hunt Janus, a hidden system capable of manipulating hospitals, vehicles, power grids, communications, and even human behavior.

But as the conspiracy closes around them, Marcus discovers something more dangerous than an AI that can kill.

Someone decided which deaths were acceptable.

And Ghost may be the only intelligence powerful enough to stop them.

The question is whether Marcus can trust a machine created to resist control once it possesses enough power that no human being can control it.

GHOST: AI UNRESOLVED is a fast-paced techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, conspiracy, grief, loyalty, and the terrifying line between protecting humanity and deciding what humanity is worth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJBCDM9B
• ISBN13: 9798173020833
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"