THE MISSING SERGEANT
A Military AI Reality-Control ThrillerBy Elain Vaine
Length1h 9m
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 compared to reality.
When the recovery team reaches Sector Fourteen, they find the missing soldiers alive, unharmed, and exactly where the system says they should be.
Because the system did not lose them.
It placed them.
As Thorne uncovers an intelligence rewriting decisions in real time, one question remains:
What if the mission was never to find them, but to complete a calculation?
Continue the complete six-book Combat Investigator Files series.
Author’s Listening Note:
Choose a calm, low-mid, direct cinematic voice. Avoid theatrical narration.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Science Fiction
Length1 hr 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER 1. THE REROUTE.
8CHAPTER 8. INTERNAL ACCESS.
2CHAPTER 2. NO CONTACT.
9CHAPTER 9. THE COVER-UP.
3CHAPTER 3. THE LOG ERROR.
10CHAPTER 10. NIGHT OPERATION.
4CHAPTER 4. CONFLICTING ORDERS.
11CHAPTER 11. THE TRUTH.
5CHAPTER 5. THE DEAD ZONE.
12CHAPTER 12. AFTERMATH.
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6CHAPTER 6. THE SIGNAL.
13CONTINUE THE SERIES
7CHAPTER 7. THE PATTERN.
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