{"product_id":"alpha-zulu-paperback","title":"Alpha Zulu - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Tod Fetherling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeggy Blanford\u003c\/b\u003e (Other)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years ago, a Soviet artificial intelligence identified the perfect spies. Now its corrupted successor is hunting them down, and the only network that can stop a machine built to erase human potential is the one a machine built to recognize it.\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-six chapters. Twenty-six letters. Alpha to Zulu. Every chapter of the novel is a letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet, and every letter is an operative: Alpha the driver, Golf the extraction specialist hiding behind a golf-course design firm, India the Kolkata clinic doctor, Papa the philosopher dormant for sixteen years in a Himalayan village, Sierra the ghost who robs the Vatican and leaves a wildflower. The alphabet is the structure, the roster, and the countdown.When dead Soviet frequencies come back to life, SIGINT officer Elena Volkov traces the signals to a vanished defector, and to the \"hunters,\" an AI-directed campaign systematically eliminating the old deep-cover networks. Spymaster Oscar Mendoza activates assets scattered across six continents: extractions off Kilimanjaro and the Peruvian coast, sanctuary in a Belfast church on All Saints Day, a murder at a Buenos Aires tango gala, a reckoning in the White House Situation Room, and a fire in Kentucky's bourbon Holy Lands. In Geneva, Oscar reveals the truth: every operative was identified decades ago by INTERCONNECT, the Soviet-era AI he acquired in 1991, a system built to recognize human potential, now mirrored by an enemy built to destroy it. The network's answer is a coordinated global strike, a sacrifice in Siberia, and a final archive proving what the machines never grasped: AI can predict people. It cannot become them.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 540\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.34 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575113093259,"sku":"9798997297107","price":50.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/JAd1t8I_4m9798997297107.webp?v=1790787069","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/alpha-zulu-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}