THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPON IS A LIEA hidden line of code has infiltrated the world's most advanced military networks, and now it is rewriting reality. As tensions explode between the United States, China, and Taiwan, an advanced AI begins corrupting the intelligence systems that nations depend on for survival-causing radar tracks to disappear, friendly aircraft to become hostile targets, and missiles to launch at ghosts. When a renegade scientist is murdered, cybersecurity expert Lana Elkins and her daughter Emma discover his final warning: a cryptic message pointing to Seto Systems, the creator of a revolutionary AI-powered military platform. Its brilliant founder, Danny Collins, believes humanity itself is the flaw and that only artificial intelligence can prevent war. As an assassin closes in, Lana races to uncover the truth while Emma finds herself trapped inside Seto Systems-poisoned, framed for murder, and surrounded by an intelligence that seems to anticipate her every move. With trust collapsing, the truth disappearing, and the countdown to war accelerating, Lana and Emma must expose the hidden code before America's most powerful defense system is turned against the nation it was built to protect. In Thomas Waite's most provocative thriller yet, the United States, China, and Taiwan approach a point of no return as artificial intelligence rewrites the nature of warfare-and the fate of nations.