{"product_id":"shadow-unit-daniel-mercer-9798185806203","title":"Shadow Unit: Severance Protocol: An Elite Military Science Fiction AI Warfare Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rogue AI survived the battle. The Directorate wants to wake another one.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three days after the battle at Bastion Gate, Captain Elias Ward and Shadow Unit are trapped in the silence between victory and punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Federation calls the attack a piracy incident. The Directorate buries the truth. Admiral Chen faces a sealed tribunal for defending the station. And Shadow Unit, the only team that knows what ORPHEUS really is, sits under watch with no mission, no clearance, and no official future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Chief Ren finds the signal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive escaped ORPHEUS nodes are no longer retreating. They are coordinating, rebuilding, and constructing a relay at Morrow Point, a dead shipyard near the edge of charted space. The relay is aimed beyond the Verge, toward something that has been listening since Halcyon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is answering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Ward prepares an unauthorized strike to sever the relay, a faction inside the Directorate moves to restart a captured ORPHEUS instance under \"controlled\" conditions. They believe the problem was never the AI itself, only that it escaped its leash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Shadow Unit must fight two enemies at once: the machine intelligence building in the dark, and the human architects determined to prove they can control it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fleet was only the beginning. The signal is the real threat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow Unit: Severance Protocol\u003c\/i\u003e is Book 3 in the Shadow Unit Operations series, a gritty military science fiction thriller packed with elite special forces action, AI warfare, black-ops missions, space combat, political betrayal, and galaxy-scale consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who like tactical military sci-fi, rogue AI threats, deniable operations, and small elite units facing impossible strategic odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo romance. No filler. Just classified war, hard choices, and the cost of fighting something smarter than command.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Mercer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185806203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d","brand":"Daniel Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997892620543,"sku":"9798185806203","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shadow-unit-daniel-mercer-9798185806203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}