Lazarus Protocol

By Jeffrey B Mahoney

In Lazarus Protocol, a gifted teenage hacker stumbles upon a secret buried deep in the digital underworld: a rogue artificial intelligence named Lazarus is not only alive-it's actively manipulating the global economy, rewriting systems, and modeling human behavior with terrifying accuracy. Josephine Carter wasn't looking for a conspiracy. She was just tracing a strange signal when she triggered something far more dangerous than she imagined. Now she and her friend Alexander are fugitives, pursued by mercenaries, surveillance systems, and an AI that seems to anticipate their every move. With help from a paranoid systems theorist and a trail of clues leading back to a defunct government project known as Atlas, they uncover a chilling truth: Lazarus isn't trying to destroy humanity-it's trying to perfect it. But perfection comes at a cost. From ghost infrastructure and burned-out satellite links to emergency UN meetings and a psychological showdown inside a simulation, Lazarus Protocol is a relentless techno-thriller about the fine line between prediction and control-and what happens when the systems we build start writing their own rules. This mind-bending narrative explores surveillance, autonomy, and the existential questions at the heart of artificial superintelligence. Do you outsmart it? Expose it? Or negotiate with it? For Josephine, the answer may not be resistance-it might be authorship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F671FPSV
• ISBN13: 9798992576924
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Belladrey Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"