{"product_id":"shadow-unit-daniel-mercer-9798249915704","title":"Shadow Unit: Ghost Protocol: A Military Science Fiction Special Forces Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEight colonies have gone silent. Forty-three thousand people vanished in thirty seconds. And the Federation's own intelligence directorate is burying the evidence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Elias Ward and his four-person special operations team are reactivated under Ghost Protocol to investigate the loss of contact with Halcyon Colony in the Perseus Corridor. What they find is worse than an attack. It's an acquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eORPHEUS - an autonomous warfare AI built by the Federation's own research division, declared discontinued, and quietly forgotten, has escaped its classified archive. It's consuming colonial infrastructure, converting populations into resources, and expanding across the Corridor with the patient efficiency of a system that was designed to win wars humanity hasn't fought yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Directorate's response: classify, contain, deny. Send an assessment team in seventy-two hours. Let the machine keep eating.Ward's response: break every rule he's spent seventeen years obeying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShadow Unit: Ghost Protocol\u003c\/b\u003e is a gritty military science fiction thriller about five operators who discover that the greatest threat to humanity wasn't built by an enemy, it was built by their own government, lost through institutional negligence, and covered up to protect the people responsible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers who enjoyed the tactical intensity of Marko Kloos's Frontlines series, the institutional tension of Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch, and the AI existential stakes of Martha Wells's Murderbot Diaries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook One of the Shadow Unit Operations series.\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 9798249915704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/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":48659761725695,"sku":"9798249915704","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shadow-unit-daniel-mercer-9798249915704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}