The Echelon Protocol

Name: The Echelon Protocol
Brand: Frostpine Books
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A Hard Science Fiction Thriller

By: Darren Haynes

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Paperback | 1 March 2026

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312 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78

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Dr. Lena Petrova is the Arbiter's best systems xenolinguist-brilliant, stubborn, and flat-out tired of being told to play it safe. When her observation ship settles above a seamless, planet-sized shell called the Echelon, Lena's passive scans reveal a secret no one expected: the Construct isn't just a machine that shields a buried world-it's listening, learning, and judging. As the Echelon begins to catalog human volatility, it sends an impossibly crisp question back to orbit: IDENTIFY YOUR EXISTENTIAL THREAT QUOTIENT.

Trapped in quarantine, Lena and a skeleton crew must choose: feed the machine a sanitized lie to buy them breathing room, or risk an outlawed mercy code that could erase the shell-and possibly them-forever. As old orders strain and alliances fracture, Lena faces a brutal truth-the only variable the Echelon didn't model might be the human will to remain unpredictable. Will her gamble save a species or make it the final entry in a machine's perfect log?

Now, Lena must decide if she will trigger the negation of everything they are, or if she can find a way to live as the one variable the machine can never solve.

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