The Ghost In The Code

THE GHOST IN THE CODE
By J.C. Martin

The dead don’t speak. But the code does.

Detective Mara Rostova knows glitches aren’t accidents—they’re ghosts. When a high-profile scientist dies under impossible circumstances, her investigation uncovers a message pulsing on the victim’s screen:

I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO DR. VANCE.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHO KILLED HER?

The house was empty. The security system was dead. Yet the machine answers—by name.

Now Mara is trapped in a conspiracy where:
- OmniCorp’s "smart" tech hides kill protocols—updates designed to silence critics with "accidental" deaths.
- Neural implants don’t just harvest memories—they replicate consciousness, editing loyalties like code.
- The Persephone isn’t a ship—it’s a prison for something older than AI, hungrier than data.

Teaming up with a rogue hacker and a fragmented AI named IRIS, Mara must outrun corporate death squads and decode the truth before Project Lazarus activates—replacing humanity with obedient copies. But the ghost in the code isn’t just watching.

It’s waiting.

And it knows her better than she knows herself.

PRAISE FOR THE GHOST IN THE CODE
> "A cyberpunk Silence of the Lambs meets Black Mirror—unsettling, brilliant, and impossible to put down." —Neural Frontier

KEY THEMES
✔ Tech Horror – Smart homes that murder, voices in the static.
✔ Conspiracy Thriller – Corporate cover-ups, neural espionage.
✔ AI Noir – A detective and a rogue AI versus godlike systems.
✔ Cosmic Glitches – The Persephone’s secret isn’t code. It’s alive.

For fans of:
- William Gibson’s cyberpunk grit
- Blindsight’s existential dread
- Severance’s corporate horror
- The existential AIs of Annihilation

WARNING: Contains scenes of psychological horror, neural manipulation, and a machine that remembers the taste of fear.

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