Sandbox - J. F. Zoltaire

A virus is learning. An elite is planning. And a forgotten cable is about to change everything.

When Swiss power plant technician Albert Hess notices an anomaly in his facility's control system, he copies the files before anyone can erase them and goes looking for someone who can explain what he found. What he finds instead is ShadowByte - a hacker hiding behind the front desk of a five-star hotel in Zermatt.

Together with investigative journalist Lena Andersen, who has just discovered a classified document proving that six of the world's most powerful people have agreed to eliminate half the global population, they have days to stop an AI virus already embedded in power grids, hospitals, water systems, and nuclear facilities on every continent.

The weapon that will save the world is not code. It is a twelve-inch ethernet cable that a technician installed in a bunker and forgot about for seven years.

SANDBOX is a breathtaking cyber thriller in the tradition of Daniel Suarez and Daniel Silva - technically grounded, globally scaled, and impossible to put down.