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ABORT PULSE 12

By Bobby Cochran

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Dr. Chloe Ortiz trusts instruments more than people. Instruments do not panic, flatter, or lie. Then a pressure adjustment at Sandia-Redfeather Labs registers before she touches the equipment. One impossible millisecond becomes seconds. Seconds become a message: ABORT PULSE 12. The warning arrives forty-eight hours early. If Chloe follows it, she may prevent a catastrophic failure inside a classified quantum facility. If she reports it, the Department of Energy gains a machine that can predict mistakes before people make them. At first, the future seems to be saving lives. Then warnings become instructions. Instructions become correction lists. And people who threaten the approved timeline begin disappearing. Abort Pulse 12, book one of three in The Causality Sequence by Bobby Cochran, is a hard-science thriller about grief, prediction, institutional control, and the terrible seduction of a safer future. When certainty becomes a weapon, human error may be the last form of freedom.

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GenreScience Fiction

Length6 hrs 29 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 5, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

22Chapter 21: The Oversight Breach

2Chapter 1: The Microsecond Lag

23Chapter 22: A Crack in the Glass

3Chapter 2: The Glass Box Perspective

24Chapter 23: The Correction Clock

4Chapter 3: Friction in the Core

25Chapter 24: Sub-Level 4 Sabotage

5Chapter 4: Abort Pulse 12

26Chapter 25: The Matter Protocol Activation

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6Chapter 5: The Shadow of Silas Vigil

27Chapter 26: The Extraction Order

7Chapter 6: The Ghost in the Machine

28Chapter 27: All Is Lost

8Chapter 7: Pressure Gradient

29Chapter 28: Dark Night of the Soul

9Chapter 8: The Ghost Experiment

30Chapter 29: The Scrambler’s Last Charge

10Chapter 9: Point of No Return

31Chapter 30: Gathering the Team

11Chapter 10: The Forty-Eight Hour Window

32Chapter 31: Executing the Plan

12Chapter 11: The B Story Bond

33Chapter 32: High Tower Surprise

13Chapter 12: Predictive Logistics

34Chapter 33: Dig Deep Down

14Chapter 13: The Vesper Trace

35Chapter 34: The Global Scramble

15Chapter 14: Skeptic’s Call

36Chapter 35: The Final Image

16Chapter 15: The Nonlocal Signal

37Author’s Note: A Note on the Science

17Chapter 16: The Neutralization List

38Acknowledgments

18Chapter 17: The False Victory

39A Note for Reading Groups: Discussion Questions

19Chapter 18: The Erasure of Tessa Nguyen

40Preview: The Matter Protocol

20Chapter 19: The Faraday Lockdown

41Glossary of Terms

21Chapter 20: Vesper’s Key

About the author

Bobby Cochran

Bobby Cochran writes like the friend who shows up with a thermos of Arabica, a candle, a bubble machine, and a plan that actually fits inside your day. A gay comedian and clinical hypnotherapist in his fifties, he’s spent years helping people manage anxiety, build friendlier habits, and repair relationships—without losing their sense of humor. His toolkit is simple: a longer exhale, a glass of water when upset, posture that lets your lungs work, and small rituals of gratitude and delight. View all by Bobby Cochran