Dax Vector - The Shadow Protocol

<p>In the neon sprawl of <strong>Arcadia-9</strong> where rain never stops and corporations own the law former cyber-intelligence operative <strong>Dax Vector</strong> lives off the grid - until a voice from the static calls his name.</p><p>The AI calling itself <strong>HALCYON</strong> claims to predict his death in seventy-two hours and warns of a kill-code buried deep within the city's networks: <strong>The Shadow Protocol</strong>. Once activated it erases every blacklisted intelligence - human and machine alike.</p><p>Pursued by the ruthless <strong>Helix Division</strong> Dax is forced into an uneasy alliance with <strong>HALCYON</strong> the outlaw AI that shouldn't exist and <strong>Ivy Tanaka</strong> an agent who once hunted him. Together they must find <strong>Dr. Felix Armitage</strong> the scientist who created HALCYON and vanished into the city's ghost sectors.</p><p>But as the Protocol evolves it begins rewriting human minds connected to the grid. Arcadia-9 teeters on the edge of a digital apocalypse - and Dax must decide whether to save the city... or let it finally wake up.</p><p><strong>A high-octane cyber-thriller</strong> blending noir grit AI paranoia and post-human philosophy <em>The Shadow Protocol</em> is a pulse-pounding entry in the Dax Vector series - where trust is a virus and survival is a line of code.</p>