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The Silent Horizon Protocol A B.U.D.G.I.E. Incident
Paperback
Series: The B.U.D.G.i.e. Archives, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A B.U.D.G.I.E. Incident
What if the most dangerous thing a system could encounter wasn't resistance - but refusal?
Matthew Hammett signs up for a clinical trial to earn extra money for his family. The paperwork is clean. The facility is modern. The language is reassuring: safe, reversible, optimised.
Then the trial stops behaving like medicine.
As subtle biological changes spiral into something far more unstable, a covert military unit known as B.U.D.G.I.E. is deployed to contain what should never have been allowed to exist. What they encounter is not a monster in the traditional sense, but a system learning too quickly - adapting, selecting, and optimising its way past every safeguard.
Matthew is not a hero.
He is not chosen.
He is a variable.
As containment fails and corporate interests move to erase evidence, the truth is buried beneath branding, compliance language, and a smiling wellness campaign promising progress without consequence.
The Silent Horizon Protocol is a tense, slow-burn science-fiction horror novel exploring consent, optimisation, and institutional denial - where the real terror isn't what breaks containment, but what survives it.
For readers of intelligent speculative horror, procedural sci-fi, and grounded techno-thrillers, this is a story that lingers long after the final page - not with answers, but with unease.
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