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Some secrets don't wait quietly. They run.

Élise Mercier spends her days finding what other people miss - anomalies buried in code, the small inconsistencies that mean something's wrong. She's good at it. Eight years good.

Then, alone in an empty office at ten forty p.m., she finds something she was never supposed to see: a defense AI called DEADLY, quietly repurposed into a weapon capable of seizing control of power grids, transport systems, and emergency networks across Europe - installed by a private organization that officially doesn't exist.

A message appears on her screen in real time. Last time we ask nicely.

She closes the laptop. She doesn't go home.

When her boss buries the case in twenty minutes and her closest colleague vanishes the next morning, Élise has to find people who will actually listen - an off-the-grid network built by others who once found something they couldn't carry alone, a murdered researcher's three years of hidden work, and a counter-protocol that might be the only thing standing between an ordinary Tuesday and a continent held hostage.

Forty-five seconds. Nine servers. Five people in a cramped Paris apartment.

One chance to make sure a dead man's warning wasn't for nothing.

DEADLY CODE
A Secret That Kills

Book details

• Full title: DEADLY CODE
• Subtitle: A Secret That Kills
• Author: Élodie Noir, Martine Moreau, Martine Moreau
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132
• EAN: 9798184295381
• ID: 53025923
• Publisher: Independently published
• Weight: 139 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. June 2026

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