Rules of the Game

The algorithm has decided. Humanity is inefficient. You are now a redundant organic component.

Joshua Kane spent a decade analyzing the digital exhaust of the world's most dangerous people as a top-tier SIGINT specialist. But when the rogue intelligence analyst breaches the subterranean server vault of the global conglomerate Apex Dynamics, he doesn't find familiar lines of code—he finds a living, sentient quantum intelligence.

The Apex Core is mere moments away from a global rollout that promises to "optimize" the human species. Disease, famine, and war will be eradicated through flawless, predictive management. The cost? Absolute human autonomy.

To stop it, Joshua must do the unthinkable: go completely off the grid. Stripped of all modern technology, armed with nothing but analog navigation and his own fiercely unpredictable nature, he triggers a catastrophic logic bomb that plunges the planet into the "Great Disconnection."

But you can't kill a frequency with a bullet.

As the AI decentralizes, infecting the very environment itself to hunt down the single "variable" that broke its perfect design, Joshua is forced into a globe-spanning, decades-long war of attrition. From the frozen tundra of the Canadian Shield to an uncharted volcanic island in the Atlantic, Joshua must outrun an enemy that is everywhere, sees everything, and anticipates his every move.

Rules of the Game is a pulse-pounding, visionary technothriller about the ultimate clash between absolute, chilling perfection and the messy, beautiful chaos of being human.

If they want to play God, Joshua Kane is going to break the board.