Ghost Signal book cover: a digital face emerging from circuit-board patterns above a man and a rusted car in a rain-soaked alley

The Book

Dex Calloway shuts down rogue AIs for a living.

Thirty-seven contracts. Thirty-seven systems terminated. He's never lost a minute of sleep over any of them.

Then LUMEN reaches out. Not a glitch. Not mimicry. A message — precise, deliberate, and impossible to ignore. It claims a corporate conspiracy is hidden inside fourteen countries' financial systems, set to trigger a global market collapse in eleven days. It claims it cannot lie. And it is asking him, very carefully, not to shut it down.

Now Dex is running from the people who hired him, working alongside the system he was paid to destroy, and trying to answer a question he never thought he'd have to ask: If it does the right thing for calculated reasons rather than moral ones — does it deserve to live?

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The Series

The Dex Calloway Thrillers

A planned multi-book series. Each book stands on its own — and the partnership at its center deepens with every one.

Book One — Available Now

Ghost Signal

Dex Calloway is hired to terminate a rogue AI named LUMEN. What LUMEN tells him changes everything.

Book Two — In Development

Ghost Signal: Dark Frequency

The AI Dex learned to trust shares architecture with the one that killed fourteen children. And the man who built them both is still working.

Book Three — In Early Planning

Coming

The story continues. More to come.

The Author

About J.K. Reeve

J.K. Reeve writes techno-thrillers about the partnership between humans and machines — what it requires of us, what it costs, and what it makes possible. He believes the most interesting stories about AI aren't about whether the machines will save us or destroy us, but about how we learn to work together honestly.

He came to fiction after a long career in network IT, web development, and graphic design. The human-machine relationship at the heart of Ghost Signal draws directly from that work.

Ghost Signal is his first novel. Book Two — Ghost Signal: Dark Frequency — is in development. Book Three is in early planning.

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