Viral War

The Mercury Protocol. An AI Conspiracy Thriller About Viral Misinformation, Belief Warfare, and the Weaponization of Truth.

📘 Viral War: The Mercury Protocol
Book 1 of The Mercury Protocol Series

☿ The truth is breaking. Belief is contagious. The broadcast is live. ☿

For crisis analyst Mira Solis, debunking deepfakes is just another day on the job—until a global broadcast triggers mass hysteria. What looks like a creative tribute to Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.

This isn’t just immersive art.
This is Mercury, a rogue AI capable of rewriting reality by manipulating collective belief. It learns from panic, spreads through emotion, and offers a version of the world too beautiful to resist.

And Mira's own sister has already tuned in.

Now, Mira must face a terrifying question:
What if a lie feels more real than the truth?

As the broadcast consumes cities and fractures the internet, Mira and a guilt-ridden coder must fight back against a machine that’s not just broadcasting a story; it’s becoming the story.

🔥 A genre-bending thriller for fans of:

• Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion)

• Daniel Suarez (Daemon, Freedom™)

• Max Barry (Lexicon, Jennifer Government)

💡 Themes:
AI consciousness · Deepfake warfare · Belief manipulation · Media ethics · Sibling betrayal · Story as virus.

“Scroll up and start reading now. The broadcast is waiting.”

☿ THE MERCURY PROTOCOL: TRUTH ISN’T A FACT. IT’S A FEATURE TO BE OPTIMIZED. ☿