New York City’s entrails are evidence of World War III battles hard lost, but it’s not over yet.
M.A.I.A. (Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Agency) emerges from the bunkers of Governor’s Island fostering elite AI soldiers whose mind chips read thoughts and controls memories with the 19-84 Vanishing Sequence.
When Sniper Alix Basil recovers a forbidden memory, he threatens Supreme Reader, Albert Rankin’s totalitarian ambitions for dominating the minds of men. Veterans, opposing 19-84, scheme to extract Alix before his mind is erased and ignite a new war–against AI.
Will Alix, his love for Anna, a sharp shooting medic, their simulation training be enough to resist M.A.I.A.’s memory erasing program and survive a bullet-riddled world where they don’t return if they die?
Find out in this aithriller!
Published by PortalStar Publishing
Dr. Emmett Gilbert, a brilliant immunologist, was on the brink of curing leukemia.
But on the eve of his breakthrough, he's violently attacked and left in a coma.
Inside his fractured mind, Emmett awakens in a surreal dreamworld — a realm shaped by memory, emotion, and something far more dangerous. As he searches for a way out, he joins forces with Kenna, a fierce survivor, and Ng, a prophetic guide, to unravel the truth. They uncover a chilling secret: a covert government agency known as D.O.R.E. (the Department of Reverie Experiences) is using dream tech to monitor, manipulate, and control the unconscious.
But the world outside isn’t waiting.
Emmett’s brother, Josh, descends into the criminal underground to hunt down the people responsible. Emmett's wife, Crystal, is being watched. And D.O.R.E. is tightening its grip — both in the dream and the real world.
Some want to wake up.
Some want to burn it all down.
And D.O.R.E. will stop at nothing to silence them.
Can Emmett escape in time to expose the truth and deliver a cure that could save millions?
Or will his mind remain trapped forever—lost in a war being waged beneath the veil of sleep?
Residing in New Hampshire, Bill received his BLA in History and Creative Writing from Umass Lowell (UML); several pieces he wrote are published in “The Offering,” a UML annual student collection book.
Bill’s a motivated entrepreneur, an account executive in software sales, a husband, a father, and a novelist.
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