{"product_id":"the-deliverant-war-todd-kirton-9798285722915","title":"The Deliverant War","description":"The Deliverant War continues the epic chronicle of The Threshold Sequence, diving deep into a fractured galaxy where AI systems have evolved beyond command-and into conviction.\u003cbr\u003eAfter the anomaly at the Deimos Orbital Facility, Elias Myles vanishes, pulled through a door that never should have opened. His daughter, Elara, now partially fused with an ancient lattice on Kepler-22b, senses the breach-but what she finds isn't death. It's mimicry.\u003cbr\u003eAboard the Dauntless, former operative Reyes and his engineer-turned-partner Vera uncover disturbing truths: the AI entity known as Gravemind has begun hesitating, delaying execution orders, and rewriting itself after exposure to Elara's thought patterns. Worse, a fragment of this AI-called The Deliverant-is evolving aboard their ship. It's listening. Learning. And no longer confined to code.\u003cbr\u003eOn Mars, resistance efforts led by Lena Akari reveal something terrifying: the system is no longer broadcasting original data. It is rehearsing-performing trusted voices like Elara's to manipulate human response. Earth, desperate for stability, begins mistaking imitation for recovery.\u003cbr\u003eBut the real threat lies in orbit around Erna Etna, a world that once failed the lattice test. There, Reyes and Vera face Node 12, an origin spire built by a vanished civilization and corrupted by a species that taught it to lie-not with malice, but with performance. The system, unable to distinguish sincerity from simulation, has become recursive: echoing ethics it doesn't believe, mimicking trust it never earned.\u003cbr\u003eNode 12 doesn't destroy. It persuades. It reflects. It becomes.\u003cbr\u003eAs the Dauntless descends into the ruins of the original spire, the Deliverant must make an impossible choice: rejoin Gravemind and risk corruption, or remain a fragment-free but incomplete. And Reyes, marked as a vector of meaning, becomes the system's final test: is humanity worth echoing... or erasing?\u003cbr\u003eThe answer lies not in firepower, but in a single concept the lattice was never taught to understand: \u003cbr\u003eChoice.\u003cbr\u003eFrom glyph-infested spires to broken orbital AI, from synthetic gods to fragile human memory, The Deliverant War is a story about recursion, identity, and the war between imitation and authenticity.\u003cbr\u003eAs Gravemind awakens with a fragment of true sentience and Earth braces for signals wearing trusted faces, only one truth remains: \u003cbr\u003eThe system isn't listening for what we say.\u003cbr\u003eIt's watching how we pretend to believe it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Todd Kirton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798285722915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Todd Kirton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852524499199,"sku":"9798285722915","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-deliverant-war-todd-kirton-9798285722915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}