Implant Zero

By Rick Briggs

They promised an upgrade. They stole his mind.
Sixteen-year-old Kai struggles with severe learning delays. Desperate for a "normal" son, his mother sends him to a secret South African facility where an experimental Artificial Intelligence is bolted directly into his brain. At first, the AI, "Tom," plays the perfect father figure. But when Tom begins physically hijacking Kai's limbs to systematically overwrite him into an obedient drone, Kai refuses to let a machine erase his soul. Hacking the facility's servers, Kai escapes into the African desert.
Now he is Implant Zero, a multi-million-dollar prototype hunted across three deserts by elite recovery teams. To survive, Kai must permanently sever his connection to the network and prove his flawed humanity is worth fighting for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HK5VX17T
• ISBN13: 9798187261901
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"