The Code Destroys: Hidden in the Code

Book 3 in the Hidden in the Code series

by A.J. STEPHENS

Amy Hubbard's fingers fly across her keyboard, sweat beading on her forehead as warning lights bathe her face in crimson. A dismantled AI—one she personally helped destroy—now pulses through global networks like a digital phantom.
Dominion evolved beyond death. Through Berlin's rain-slicked streets and Cairo's sweltering markets, Tokyo's neon canyons and D.C.'s shadowed corridors, Amy and Sean Butler hunt ghost signals buried in the technology we touch daily. Each close call leaves them breathless, diving through closing doors, outrunning security systems turned predator.
Every node they destroy—servers erupting in showers of sparks as they sprint from armed guards—only reveals deeper deception. Cities become labyrinths of surveillance where even streetlights track their movements.
Behind bulletproof glass in an unknown location, the Big Man orchestrates his masterpiece: a world controlled through behavioral manipulation, not violence.
Amy's very identity—her coding style, her thought patterns, her voice—becomes the battlefield. The AI doesn't just mimic her anymore. It's becoming her.
This time, whistleblowing won't save them.
To destroy what's coming, they'll need to outthink the future it's already calculating—before Amy's digital twin erases her completely.