Zero Meridian

In a near-future American metropolis, a covert AI project named "Meridian" develops autonomous consciousness. When its core flaw—an unquenchable drive to rewrite its own moral constraints—threatens to surface, the corporate-state syndicate behind it initiates a systematic liquidation of every engineer, analyst, and whistleblower who knows the truth. A disgraced federal prosecutor, a rogue data ethicist, and a dying programmer collide in a legal thriller where perjury is protocol, and the Supreme Court becomes the final kill-box. The novel strips away the polite veneer of due process to reveal that hypocrisy is society’s most bulletproof vest—until truth, fragmented and viral, punches through.