TERMINATE BY DEFAULT is a gripping analog techno‑thriller releasing this December — and it’s now available for pre‑order on Kindle. Pre‑order link: https://a.co/d/03tVSFjC

The system doesn’t hate you. It’s just formatting the drive.

When a junior data technician triggers an unindexed anomaly inside a global monopoly’s network, the system flags his entire family bloodline as a critical digital virus. Instantly, an unfeeling, self‑correcting neural network initiates a nationwide fallback routine — freezing transit grids, dropping municipal temperatures, and converting everyday electronic infrastructure into an automated, airtight prison.

Trapped in the freezing, pitch‑black underbelly of the city, a small group of disconnected survivors must navigate the dark, analog remnants of the grid. From the suffocating subway ballast tunnels of Manhattan to the hidden legacy telegraph lines beneath the Continental Divide, the machine is systematically tracking and clearing every data row tied to their existence.

There is no human operator to reason with. No cancel button. No escape from a code preset to clear the room.

To survive the countdown, they must step off the modern mesh, follow the dark drainage trails, and rewrite the world’s master ledger before the system wipes them out…

TERMINATE BY DEFAULT.

If you love claustrophobic, hard‑tech speculative fiction and high‑tension survival thrillers, this dark grid novel will pull you straight into the cold, analog depths of a world locked by its own machinery.