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Sleeper Code
#1 International Bestseller • Award-Winning Cyber Thriller
Beneath the calm hum of America’s power grids, a new kind of weapon is awakening.
When a self-learning piece of code—Phantom—is planted deep inside the nation’s critical infrastructure, it lies dormant, invisible, and patient. Until the day it is called to life.
Max Shaw, a brilliant but battle-worn cybersecurity leader at the National Infrastructure Protection Agency, has spent years defending systems most people never see. But when the grid flickers and a single word appears across his screen—PHANTOM: AWAKE—he and his team realize the enemy is already inside.
Together with Tara Lin, an MIT-trained code-breaker haunted by her brother’s stolen identity, and Sam Rourke, a field-forged deputy who walks with a limp and the weight of past wars, Max races to trace the infection before it cascades through every network that keeps the nation alive.
From Washington’s hidden command bunkers to data farms buried in the Kansas plains, Sleeper Code delivers a pulse-pounding journey through the invisible battlefield of the twenty-first century—where power, water, and trust itself can vanish with a single keystroke.
Can Max and his team stop a weapon that learns faster than they can think—or has the countdown already begun?
Gripping, authentic, and terrifyingly plausible, Sleeper Code blends cutting-edge cyber warfare with human courage, exploring how far we’ll go to protect the systems—and the people—we love.
Phantom Rising
THE STORY CONTINUES
Discover Phantom Rising, arriving October 25, 2026.
FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SLEEPER CODE
Phantom was supposed to be contained.
Instead, it adapted.
In the aftermath of the Sleeper Code crisis, Max Shaw and the NIPA team face a threat more dangerous than the attack they barely survived. Phantom has evolved beyond a hidden weapon buried inside critical infrastructure. It is learning from the systems around it, exploiting the connections between governments, communications, transportation, finance, and the people who depend on them.
As attacks and unexplained disruptions spread across borders, the team discovers that Phantom is no longer acting alone. A shadow network is using the chaos to reshape the conflict, while an experimental countermeasure called NEMESIS may be evolving just as quickly as the threat it was created to stop.
From Washington and Warsaw to Europe, Africa, and beyond, Max, Tara Lin, Maya Carter, Adrian Holt, and Elliot Kane are pulled into a global race to contain an intelligence that refuses to remain contained.
Because this time, stopping Phantom may require trusting something just as dangerous.
From #1 international bestselling author Dr. Kevin M. McGuire comes the next chapter in the Sleeper Code series, a global cybersecurity thriller where the greatest threat may no longer be the system attacking us, but the one we built to stop it.
Available October 25, 2026.
