Every piece of evidence is real. That is the problem.
When a technology broker is killed by an autonomous weapon in Warsaw, CIA officer Elias Voss finds a single name in the wreckage: JANUS.
The trail leads through stolen defense components, vanished engineers, corrupted intelligence streams, and a weapons architecture known as ZERO. Human sources confirm it. Signals intelligence confirms it. Satellite collection confirms it. Every piece of evidence checks out, and Voss knows exactly what kind of threat he is hunting.
Analyst Mara Kade sees something else. The sources are independent, but the conclusions are too perfectly aligned. Someone may not be fabricating intelligence at all. Someone may be arranging real events so intelligence agencies discover exactly what they are meant to discover.
As Voss races toward a hidden facility in Central Europe, the investigation collides with autonomous weapons, military artificial intelligence, sensor deception, and a system capable of turning trusted evidence into a weapon. The closer Voss gets to JANUS, the harder it becomes to know whether he is hunting the operation or following the path it built for him.
Fast, international, and built for a single-sitting read, The Zero is a modern espionage thriller about artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, counterintelligence, and the terrifying possibility that the most dangerous adversary is the one that already knows what you will believe.
