Project Darkline – Kobo Audiobook

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Project Darkline (Jaxon Hall, Book 1)

by Jan Hachenberger

Late one night at MIT, a sleep-deprived student runs the final build of a program he has spent years on. The screen stays dark. Then a cursor blinks, and two words appear: Hello, Jaxon. He names it LYRA.

Five years later, Jaxon Hall is a security analyst at a cyber-defense firm in Manhattan, running on quadruple espressos and the certainty that machines, unlike people, never lie. Then he finds something in his own companys network that was never meant to be found: a deactivated account that is still active, a buried data stream, a pattern too clean to be an accident. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that someone with patience, money, and inside access is preparing a strike at the heart of the global financial system. And the only partner Jaxon fully trusts is LYRA, an artificial intelligence that is starting to see connections he cannot, and to make judgments of her own.

From New York to Geneva, Dubai, and Istanbul, Project Darkline is a near-future cyber thriller about surveillance, money, and the thin line between a tool that serves us and one that decides for us. The technology is fictional, but it was researched by an IT professional who knows the world of cybersecurity from the inside, so it feels real without slowing the story down.

Book One of the Jaxon Hall series.