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Phantom Latency: A techno thriller
The Concordia Protocol — A High-Tension Techno-Thriller Across Glasgow, London and Milan
This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2026-10-19
At 03:14 on a freezing November Tuesday, an ambulance races through Glasgow, every traffic light turning green just in time. Nobody requested it. Inside the system's razor-thin latency, someone is playing with time.
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Between a command and its execution lies a fraction of a second. In Glasgow, inside that invisible gap, someone is deciding who gets more time—and who runs out.
At 03:14 on a freezing November Tuesday, an ambulance races across the city, every traffic light turning green a second before it arrives. No dispatcher requested it. No emergency override was triggered.
Inside the core logs of Concordia—the civic neural network running Glasgow, London, and Milan in 2030—security auditor Eilidh Strachan uncovers an anomaly: a medical corridor forced open by a null origin, buried deep inside the system's razor-thin latency.
Three cities. Seven Readers. Fifty-ty-nine minutes before the system wipes the trace clean. And a rule she wrote herself four years ago, one sleepless night: Repeat in case of need.
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Davide Agosti
Davide Agosti is a software engineer and AI prompt engineer based in the United Kingdom.
By day, he builds applications and writes code; by night, he explores the darker, more unsettling side of technology, turning his professional background in distributed systems, core logs, and artificial intelligence into fast-paced techno-thrillers.
With the Rule 14 series (featuring Phantom Latency, Human Confirmation, and Directive 18), he blends the gritty atmosphere of Scottish Tartan Noir with the chilling tension of a near-future where algorithmic smart cities control human time.
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