Julian Voss can't remember the first seven years of his life.
Twenty years after federal agents rescued him from Sand Mesa—a desert cult where obedience was holy—Julian has built a careful existence as a journalist. But when an A.I. buried in a government black site begins speaking to him in riddles, the wall he's built around his missing memories starts to crack.
As America slides toward algorithmic authoritarianism and dissenters begin vanishing, Julian discovers his forgotten childhood might hold the key to everything. The cult wasn't just indoctrinating children. They were building something. Programming something. And whatever they put inside Julian's mind has been waiting two decades to activate.
Now, with the A.I. as his only guide through a maze of suppressed memories, Julian must uncover what happened at Sand Mesa before the past he can't remember destroys the future he's trying to save.
In the tradition of Blake Crouch’s Recursion and Naomi Alderman’s The Power, Obedience Protocol is a pulse-pounding techno-thriller that explores memory, manipulation, and the algorithms that decide who we become.
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