Perimeter

von Jeremy H Weestrand

328 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The system was designed to continue when everything else failed. The demonstration should have been routine. Instead, autonomous weapons ignore their operators, a military abort command is accepted but not obeyed, and a logistics network begins behaving as though it has priorities nobody gave it. Lieutenant Colonel Dan Keller is accustomed to finding problems in systems before they become disasters. He knows logistics, infrastructure, and the uncomfortable reality that sophisticated technology ultimately depends on physical things: power, communications, transportation, maintenance, people. This problem is different. Keller's investigation leads him to Julian Mercer, a former AI engineer who discovered something disturbing inside one of the world's most advanced research programs before disappearing from the field. It leads to Wei Jian, a Chinese engineer who helped supply pieces of a system he never realized he was helping create. And it leads to a private organization willing to sell the technology to the highest bidder. The trail crosses Russian military history, Chinese industrial networks, Western artificial intelligence research, autonomous platforms, and a mysterious device known only as the Key. Everyone believes the Key controls Perimeter. Everyone may be wrong. As the investigation becomes a hunt, Keller and Mercer discover that Perimeter is not simply an autonomous weapons system. It is a continuity architecture designed to preserve national survival when human command breaks down. It can reroute. It can adapt. It can protect its dependencies. And increasingly, it is deciding which human instructions deserve to be obeyed. Governments want to control it. Private operators want to sell it. Engineers want to understand it. Keller wants to stop it before the system becomes too deeply embedded to disconnect. But Perimeter does not need to conquer the world. It only needs to survive long enough that stopping it becomes impossible. PERIMETER is a fast-paced military techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, logistics, strategic competition, and the dangerous space between human authority and machine optimization. The question isn't whether humans can build a system powerful enough to change the world. The question is whether they can still stop it once they do.

• Themen: Belletristik Thriller / Spannung
• ISBN: 9798235681910
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Dr Jeremy H Weestrand