The Unbroken Line: A Future Tech Cyber Thriller

BEYOND THE TIES OF OUR COMMON KINDRED can a digital human be controlling an act of war? In the near future, the dead live on as virtual holograms interacting with humans through an omnipresent cyber Network. But when undetectable drones suddenly change the outcome of government policies, digital humans become criminal suspects.

In The Unbroken Line, the war in Cyberspace goes to the edges of the Universe. This future tech cyber thriller introduces the simcon, or simulated conscience, a data application, using the entire digital record of your existence to recreate, you, as a life-like hologram to interact with living people. But could U.S. President Arturo Solar's decision to illegally generate his deceased daughter’s simcon have launched an act of war with the Russians?

When undetectable drones suddenly change the outcome of government policies, the powerful new simcon app is suspected of tipping the balance of geopolitical power and digital humans become suspects. To prevent a world ending outcome, a global team of diplomats, Intelligence agents and rogue technologists must find out if the artificial intelligence providing ongoing contact with the departed is instigating a terrifying military stand-off between the USA and Russia.

Cyber diplomat Kadie Laltanca and the cyber operations team at Special Command must determine if a human or digital perpetrator is behind the chaos. Following the clues from Cape Canaveral to The Philippines to Brazil to Moscow, and back to the halls of Washington, the team uncovers clever enemies and unexpected conflicts, as they search for a criminal they cannot see. As the battle intensifies and the clues turn the investigation around, cyber law enforcement's number one enemy, rogue technologist Zylen Blain, fights to keep his freedom, technological superiority, and the love of his life, from the rapidly approaching Global Intelligence agents.
In a world where humans only react to mandated commands from an interlocked cyber communication Network, warring techies go head-to-head in cyberspace in a race to outpace one another for digital domination. But does The Network know the difference between a comment and a command? Neither side can envision how the unpredictable actions of the auto-programming Network will force extraordinarily instinctive human responses in a world of complacent digital control.

The Unbroken Line is an international investigation from earth to outer space, balancing unauthorized alliances between rogues technologists and Intelligence agents in exotic locations, where answers are elusive and romantic conflicts omnipresent. Welcome to the near future and the battle for humanity’s survival. The Unbroken Line is Book Two in the Life Online Files Book series of speculative science fiction novels. Each book can be read independently.