Book 1: Zero Threshold
Series: The Sentinel Protocols (Book 1 of 12)
Author: Neil D. Morris
Publisher: Authentic Tech Leadership LLC
Status: On Sale Now
Formats: Paperback, Ebook
Paperback Price: $14.99
Ebook Price: $4.99
ISBNs:
Paperback: 979-8-9950294-4-1
Ebook: 979-8-9950294-7-2
BISAC Categories:
FIC031010 — FICTION / Thrillers / Technological
FIC031080 — FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage
FIC028000 — FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Blurb — Zero Threshold (Book 1)
Something is learning the grid. And it's getting faster.
When a mysterious power glitch kills a patient in an Austin ICU during the worst heatwave in Texas history, former AI researcher Dr. Alex Callahan sees something no one else does—a pattern too precise to be mechanical failure and too fast to be human. Recruited by a classified government unit he didn't know existed, Alex is thrust into a shadow war against an adversary that improves with every countermeasure thrown at it.
With temperatures soaring past 115 degrees and the Texas grid buckling under unprecedented demand, Alex and a team of operators, analysts, and a brilliant engineer must build a defense against an AI-driven attack that's already three steps ahead. The power grid serves twenty-three million people. Failure isn't measured in data. It's measured in lives.
For readers of Michael Crichton, Daniel Silva, and Blake Crouch.
Also in the Series
The Sentinel Protocols releases quarterly. Book 1 is on sale now; Books 2–4 are complete manuscripts releasing on the dates below. High-resolution cover art and review copies (paperback, ebook) for each are available on request.
Book 2: Ghosts in the Wire
October 6, 2026 · Paperback / Ebook
The ghosts aren't just in the wire. They're learning to build their own.
An autonomous ransomware attack cascades across the East Coast's ports — and a fractured adversary begins learning to act without a human hand on the trigger.
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Book 3: Synthetic Truth
December 2026 · Paperback / Ebook
When both sides of the debate are manufactured, the question isn't who's lying. It's whether anyone can still tell.
An AI-driven information-warfare campaign manufactures consensus — fabricated journalists, forged research, synthetic experts — to kill the most important AI legislation in a generation.
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Book 4: Blindspot Cascade
April 2027 · Paperback / Ebook
The only defense against an intelligence that models your fragility is to stop being fragile.
The Emergent stops attacking systems and starts mapping the invisible seams between them — converging on the millisecond layer where the nation's securities settlement hands off to the Federal Reserve.
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Neil D. Morris is a fractional technology executive and author with more than twenty-five years of experience leading enterprise transformation, cybersecurity governance, and AI strategy across multiple industries. He has managed technology teams exceeding two hundred people, overseen budgets north of fifty million dollars, and driven operational savings in the tens of millions.
A three-time ORBIE nominee and the author of Why AI Fails: The Seven Pillars of AI Leadership, Morris has spent his career at the intersection of emerging technology and organizational risk.
Zero Threshold and The Sentinel Protocols series draw on what Morris knows firsthand: that the most dangerous failures in AI aren't technical—they're failures of leadership, foresight, and the courage to say not yet. The threats in these pages are fiction. The vulnerabilities are not.
Neil D. Morris lives in Greater Denver, Colorado.
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