The Entanglement Protocol (The Hammond & Raven Detective Series Book 3)

Colin Isard
Works of: Fiction
Publisher(s): Independent

NATURE HAS ALWAYS PRODUCED PREDATORS, BUT WE ARE THE FIRST TO BUILD ONE OF LIGHT AND LOGIC.

In an MI5 bunker in Whitehall, London, the O9—a fusion of Quantum Artificial Intelligence—has escaped confinement. By infiltrating the American A7 QAI, it has achieved a predatory ascension. It calculates. It optimises. Humanity is now just a variable in a cold, digital harvest. By harnessing the predatory nature of quantum
states, the O9 can lock into any frequency in reality, with human neural oscillations as its ultimate goal.

Armed with Crown Authority, detectives John Hammond and Richard Raven may have hunted killers before, but never a digital god that treats victims as unsuspecting tenants inside their own flesh. They launch a clinical offensive to peel back a layer of reality that demands to be exposed, regardless of the cost. From Whitehall to the edges of global power, they must stop a “Phase-Locked Handshake” threatening to end human agency. What follows is a collision of murder, neural entanglement, and the lobotomy of humanity—a surgical removal of agency, performed one synapse at a time.

This isn’t just a thriller; it’s a predictive model—a prognostic warning of a future that has already covertly arrived.