GHOST PROTOCOL

Some ghosts are made of chrome and vengeance.
In the rain-soaked streets of Neo-Veridia, Kaelen Thorne is a ghost-an augmented ex-soldier who takes the jobs no one else survives. His latest mission seems simple: steal a data drive from a crime lord and disappear. But the drive isn't what it seems. It doesn't contain secrets. It contains him.
Encrypted in the drive is a payload that rewrites Kaelen's blood, transforming him into the carrier for a technology that could enslave every mind on Earth. Now hunted by the ruthless Omega Corporation and their shadowy masters, the Architects, Kaelen is forced to run, fight, and kill his way through a conspiracy that reaches from the city's glittering towers to an orbital weapon capable of glassing continents.
But he isn't alone. Hacker Jax becomes his unlikely partner. Commander Reyes returns from the grave with a warning. And when the truth emerges-that Kaelen is Patient Zero for a global mind-control network-he must choose between destroying himself or becoming the very weapon his enemies designed him to be.
From explosive rooftop chases through rain-slicked megacity sprawl to the frozen silence of an arctic prison, Chrome Protocol is a relentless cyberpunk thriller about identity, sacrifice, and what it means to stay human when the machines inside you wake up.