A god-like AI handler that has never failed. A flawless agent who has never been caught. A disgraced soldier who chose to be forgotten.
For the galaxy-spanning AI named Nommo, the loss of its top agent, Amandine, is a catastrophic system error. Captured during a covert mission, Amandine is now the prisoner of Le Corbeau, a brilliant and ruthless scientist who is dissecting her mind not for secrets, but to learn how to mass-produce her soul. With every conventional and logical option for rescue failing, Nommo is forced to turn to an outlier it cannot compute: Abdoulaye, a former soldier living in self-imposed exile, haunted by the ghosts of a mission that shattered his faith in the system.
Lured back into the fight by the promise of a truth that could rewrite his past, Abdoulaye is deployed as a weapon of last resort. He is a man who trusts his gut over probabilities, a chaotic variable in a war of cold calculus. Guided by the machine he despises, he must infiltrate an enemy fortress that seems to anticipate his every move. But to save the flawless agent, the broken soldier must confront the architect of her pain and make a choice the AI cannot model, a choice that will force man and machine to question the true price of a soul.