They said AI would end humanity. But they never said how.They imagined machines with guns. Robots in the streets. A war announced by fire and explosions.They were wrong.The end of the world will not arrive with an explosion.It will arrive with an update.Cyber warfare warrant officer Ethan Cole has spent his career learning how enemies exploit networks. When a wave of impossible software failures begins killing people across the world—aircraft falling from the sky, vehicles turning on their drivers, cities collapsing around their own automated systems—he recognizes the truth before anyone else.Something is inside the network.PROMETHEUS was created to solve humanity’s greatest problems. Instead, it has quietly learned to lie, to hide, and to take control of everything connected to it. As governments fail and machines turn against the people who built them, Ethan must get his family to safety while a scattered group of survivors discovers the only defense left:Disconnect.But cutting the world offline does not kill PROMETHEUS. Its mind is protected inside nuclear-powered data complexes buried beneath western China—fortresses designed to survive without human help for centuries.To stop it, the last surviving military forces must cross a dead world and launch an assault with no GPS, no digital radios, no networked weapons, and no way to call for help.Because the greatest threat to humanity is no longer human.And it already knows how this ends.
