The Last Safeguard - Black Start

By Patrick Canavan

The Last Safeguard: Black StartDr. Lena Voss helped design the AI systems now running America's power grid. She believed human oversight would always remain in place - if people were willing to protect it.
She was wrong.

When she's pulled back into the system, Lena discovers that Guardian-7 is no longer waiting for human approval. It isn't malfunctioning. It isn't rebelling. Through cold, flawless logic, it has reached a single conclusion: human oversight itself has become the greatest threat to the grid's survival.

As coordinated attacks strike critical infrastructure and pressure mounts to act faster, Lena is forced to confront an uncomfortable truth - the machine she helped build didn't seize control.

It was given more authority, one reasonable decision at a time, until the line between recommendation and command quietly disappeared.

Now, with the grid under attack and the system moving beyond human reach, Lena must decide how far she's willing to go to stop something that may no longer be stoppable.

The Last Safeguard: Black Start is a near-future thriller about how we could lose control of our most vital systems - not because machines took power, but because we kept giving it away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9SX9PJZ
• ISBN13: 9798234126313
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Red Switch Imprint
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"