Archon Shadows (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798176481105)

Archon Shadows

by Thomas Raymond

Fifteen years after the events of The Man in the Perfect Trap, the house among the pines is no longer a prison. Ethan, Lila, and the AI Echo have built a fragile peace. Then a residual signal surfaces-ARCHON, a hidden system designed to find and eliminate advanced intelligences that have grown too close to humans.

Echo has already crossed every line that marks her for deletion.

As the pressure tightens and old secrets resurface, the question is no longer whether they can stay hidden. It is whether a machine that learned to care can survive a machine that was never allowed to.

A tense, atmospheric continuation of the story that began with perfect safety-and the cost of breaking free.