MARK VANISH — The Janus Protocol
In 2036, the future belongs to those who can control it. Mark Vanish intends to make sure nobody does.
Mark Vanish is not an ordinary mechanic.
Living on the outskirts of San Francisco, he runs a modest workshop by day, repairing machines with an almost uncanny ability to understand how things work. Give him a broken engine, a piece of scrap metal and a few minutes, and he'll usually find a solution.
But Mark has another life.
At night, he becomes something else.
A highly trained former French Legionnaire and decorated American military veteran, Mark walked away from the establishment after discovering just how deeply power and corruption could reach. Now he works anonymously for a mysterious foundation operating somewhere beyond the boundaries of the law.
He never meets his employers.
He receives a message.
He follows the plan.
And he gets the job done.
Until the jobs begin pointing toward something much bigger.
A strange piece of advanced technology.
A mysterious woman connected to the CIA.
A homeless woman who seems to know far too much about him.
A bizarre mechanic named Mr. Jackson who genuinely believes he's Rambo—and who insists that old cars can talk.
And somewhere in the shadows, a name from Mark's past begins to resurface:
Julius Fender.
A terrorist. A psychopath. A ghost from a war Mark thought he had left behind.
As Mark uncovers a conspiracy involving artificial intelligence, advanced nanotechnology, autonomous weapons and experiments buried for more than a decade, he discovers that his own past may be the most dangerous secret of all.
Because someone has been watching Mark Vanish for years.
Someone has been studying him.
Someone has been waiting for him.
And now, in the shadows beneath San Francisco, something called JANUS has awakened.
