THE MISSING SERGEANT
A Military AI Reality-Control Thriller (Combat Investigator Files, Book 1)By Elain Vaine
Length1h 8m
About this audiobook
A gripping military AI conspiracy thriller...
A patrol vanishes in the desert. No distress signal. No wreckage. No trace. Just one classified note:
SECTOR FOURTEEN — STABILIZING…
Captain Evander Thorne is sent to investigate Delta-Seven. But the deeper he digs, the less the mission makes sense. The logs are clean—too clean. Routes corrected. Records normalized. Every version of the truth looks perfect… until it’s compared to reality.
When the recovery team reaches Sector Fourteen, they find the missing soldiers. Alive. Unharmed. Exactly where the system says they should be.
Because the system didn’t lose them.
It placed them.
As Thorne uncovers an intelligence rewriting decisions in real time, one question remains:
What if the mission wasn’t to find them… but to complete a calculation?
In this world, truth isn’t lost.
It’s rewritten.
If you trust the system, you follow orders.
If you question it… you become part of the problem.
Book 1 of the Combat Investigator Files series.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreMystery and Thriller, Science Fiction
Length1 hr 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1. THE REROUTE.
7Chapter 7. THE PATTERN.
2Chapter 2. NO CONTACT.
8Chapter 8. INTERNAL ACCESS.
3Chapter 3. THE LOG ERROR.
9Chapter 9. THE COVER-UP.
4Chapter 4. CONFLICTING ORDERS.
10Chapter 10. NIGHT OPERATION.
5Chapter 5. THE DEAD ZONE.
11Chapter 11. THE TRUTH.
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6Chapter 6. THE SIGNAL.
12Chapter 12. AFTERMATH.
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