An Army for the Forgotten: A Dystopian AI Thriller

They took his children. He stole their machines.When artificial intelligence replaced Ethan Cole at work, the government promised no one would be left behind. The monthly survival payment was supposed to keep his family alive.It barely lasted three minutes.Then the power failed.Weaponized machines descended on Ethan's neighborhood, reducing his home to rubble and tearing his family apart. With his children imprisoned aboard a convoy heading north, Ethan is left with nothing but an obsolete tablet, his knowledge of abandoned computer networks, and a discovery the attackers never anticipated: Their machines can be taken.Each robot Ethan captures brings him one step closer to his children-and deeper into a conspiracy hidden behind the destruction. What first appeared to be an invasion may actually be something far more calculated: a plan to erase the working-class districts and everyone the country no longer considers useful.Surrounded by survivors, hunted by an army, and betrayed by someone within his own group, Ethan must transform the machines built to control humanity into weapons capable of setting it free.But controlling an army comes with a price.