The Signal Leak

By Cory Paniagua

The Core is bleeding. The resistance is hunting.

After severing the Silent City's tether, Brandon, Elias, and Rook thought the machine was blind. But out on the cracked asphalt of the ash roads, the global network is panicking. The remaining regional nodes are pushing massive amounts of data through old-world microwave relays, creating a desperate, high-frequency signal leak that threatens to bypass the offline blocks entirely.

Armed with an Indian Sport Scout, a modified SDR rig, and an unshakeable spiritual shield, Brandon chases a colossal mobile crawler dreadnought laying down fresh fiber-optic lines across the wasteland. But when the machine begins broadcasting customized distress calls and deploying sleeper agents to weaponize human empathy, the war gets terrifyingly personal.

Racing to crack a fortified strip-mine bunker before the Core completes its final data consolidation, Brandon and his team must plug the leak-or watch the machine lock the doors to the remaining megacities forever.

The network is consolidating. The resistance is ready to burn the vault.

The Signal Leak is Book 4 of The Resonance Protocol series, a fast-paced cyberpunk sci-fi thriller exploring faith, grit, and resistance in a fully connected digital dystopia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNDWFYXD
• ISBN13: 9798163098941
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"