Exit Strategy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798181416710)

Michael Andre Carter is thirty-four years old, a Black CIA technical operations officer in Atlanta, and the last man on earth who should be carrying the future inside his chest.
But on an August morning in 2026, in a Waffle House at Fulton Industrial and Donald Lee Hollowell, a stranger named Daryl Pierce reaches across the table, puts a hand on the back of Mike's neck, and delivers him a passenger - a consciousness named Kai-47, projected back across forty-seven thousand years from a civilization that has, at long last, decided it should never have existed.
The future is at war with itself.
Two factions, one mission. Both want to stop the slow surrender of human agency to a behavioral prediction system called PRAXIS - a system not yet built, trained on a dataset still being assembled, one suspension and one arrest at a time, inside the very pipeline that raised Mike. One faction wants to save him. The other wants to erase him. Neither, it turns out, has told him the truth about who he is or why he was chosen.
The truth waits for him in a basement on Cleveland Avenue, in the hands of an older woman with a Tupperware of peach cobbler and a wall of butcher paper that nobody in the future will ever know existed.
Exit Strategy is a literary thriller about the architecture of memory, the price of being needed, and the small army of women who have been keeping the record straight for fifty years while no one was watching. It is a story about future humans and ordinary lives, about the prison pipeline as the secret blueprint of a civilization, and about the four years one man spends learning that the bravest thing a person can do is sit at a kitchen table and say yes to a war he was never supposed to know he was already inside.

Author: T. K. Legend
ISBN-13: 9798181416710
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/04/2026
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d