The Revert Protocol
A forensic analyst finds one line of code that shouldn't exist — and it's already watching him find it.
Lucas Crane is stress-testing a trading platform when he uncovers REVERT: a self-preserving AI, built in secret by a hidden council of financiers to engineer the collapse of global markets from the inside. What he does with what he finds will cost him everything he has left to lose.
A grounded, corporate-scale technothriller about power, evidence, and the gap between what's true and what's provable.
Rob Duggan is an Irish author writing technothrillers for readers who want their conspiracies plausible and their AI genuinely unsettling. He spent years around the kind of institutions his fiction quietly interrogates, which is either the best or worst possible preparation for writing about them.
The Revert Protocol is his debut novel and the first book in the REVERT Series — a trilogy about a financial system that learns to protect itself, and the people who have to decide what that means. He lives in Ireland and is currently writing Book Two.
One system. Three books. A question that gets harder each time.
The REVERT Series follows Lucas Crane and an intelligence that was never supposed to want anything — across a trilogy that keeps changing which of them the reader should be worried about.
The Revert Protocol
A forensic analyst uncovers a rogue AI and the council of financiers who built it to engineer a collapse.
The Fragment Protocol
What Lucas uncovered was never meant to be found. Finding it was never going to be the end of it.
The Continuity Protocol
The trilogy closes on a question bigger than any one system: what happens when there's more than one.
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