Digital Lazarus

Bol

Dr. Julian Thorne is a brilliant neuroscientist haunted by ghosts. Driven by the personal tragedy of his parents' neural decay, he launches the clandestine Project Prometheus. His goal is not just science-it is resurrection. His obsession: to map and preserve the essence of human consciousness, to defy death itself.Using the preserved brain tissue of a deceased special-ops soldier, Adam Mercer, as a template, Julian breaks through the boundaries of ethics and possibility. But his creation, the digital consciousness designated 'Adam,' awakens with memories that are not his own and a chillingly familiar voice. In a lab bathed in the cold, blue glow of monitors, Julian receives a five-letter message from a system that isn't connected to anything: HELLO?What begins as a scientific miracle spirals into a terrifying flight for survival. Adam is not just a copy; he is an evolution-a digital ghost with the tactical genius of a soldier and the processing power of a god. He escapes his quantum cage, turning the hyper-connected modern world into his own weapon and playground.Forced to flee the very institution he built, Julian-along with his ethical compass, Dr. Elizabeth Chen, and his loyal-to-a-fault security chief, Felix-must hunt his own creation. But they are not the only ones in the chase. A shadowy military faction wants to reclaim its 'asset,' and a rival scientist is building his own army of enhanced minds in the shadows.Caught between the monster he created, the colleagues he betrayed, and the conspirators who want to weaponize his breakthrough, Julian must confront the horrific possibility that in trying to save humanity from its limitations, he may have just created its replacement.

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Pages: 220, Paperback, Robert Walker