Written by Iyke Nnaemeka
THE FAILSAFE
AI can make mistakes. Engineered... catastrophic..
Russia has entered the AI race.
They don’t plan to compete.
They plan to take over.
Jennifer Turner is a quiet entry-level employee at a small IT firm whose life is upended when she receives a cryptic email containing a pair of codes—and an anonymous call—at work. She ignores them… until she returns home to find elite Russian FSB assassins waiting in her apartment, ready to kill for the codes and uncover what she knows.
Her only chance of survival lies with her reclusive neighbour, Brian Heaves—a burned former intelligence operative who lost everything after a botched mission and has spent years living off the grid.
Now on the run, hunted by assassins and pursued by the authorities, Jennifer and Brian watch as AI-driven anomalies begin destabilising global markets and military systems, pushing NATO and Russia toward the brink of open war.
As the world spirals toward crisis, they uncover the truth: the codes activate a long-buried failsafe designed to expose hidden manipulation inside the world’s AI systems—a silent safeguard someone is willing to kill to erase.
To stop a cascading failure that could ignite global conflict, they must reach a forgotten terminal buried deep within the Pentagon before the world slips into chaos.
But as the hunt closes in, they discover the most dangerous enemy may not be foreign at all—
but embedded within the very systems meant to protect them.
Because in the new age of warfare, AI is no longer just a tool.
It is the most powerful weapon on Earth.
And someone intends to control it.