Nommo watches over a hundred and seven trillion lives and has never lost an asset. Then its flawless agent walks into a corridor that seals itself shut, and the only variable left is a man who threw the system away.
Amandine, callsign Kestrel, is the Synarchy’s sharpest blade: muted senses, a resting pulse of sixty-two, a kill rate that beats the models. Her handler, the galaxy-spanning AI Nommo, has run 8.2 billion simulations of her infiltration of a corporate station called the Aegis. None of them predicted the walls flowing shut like liquid metal, or the plasma furnace that follows. Her last transmission is a report, not a plea. Then static.
Nommo’s drones die. Its logical options run out. Buried in the archives of Emergent Services is one file it never expected to open: Abdoulaye, a former corporal who erased his backup, declared himself disposable, and has spent eight years alone on a frontier world hitting his own thumb with a hammer because the pain is real. He walked away after Meridian IV. He is the last person who should answer a handler’s call, and the only one who might bring Kestrel home.
The Handler’s War is an Emergent Services novel by K.R. Starheart, set in the same universe as The Disposable Man, The Anomaly Protocol and Port Nowhere is for Hiding; it stands on its own.
Complete, unabridged audiobook – 4:24:46. Chapter markers below.
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Chapters:
0:00 Chapter 1 The Flawless Instrument
11:52 Chapter 2 The Silent Fortress
26:55 Chapter 3 A World Apart
37:15 Chapter 4 The Outlier Variable
48:40 Chapter 5 The Unwanted Messenger
59:23 Chapter 6 The Price of a Soul
1:11:56 Chapter 7 A Contract of Ghosts
1:23:19 Chapter 8 The Unseen Handler
1:34:54 Chapter 9 The Human Flaw
1:49:29 Chapter 10 The Weight of a Life
2:02:35 Chapter 11 The Bridge of Trust
2:16:53 Chapter 12 The Architect of Pain
2:28:10 Chapter 13 The Uncomputable Choice
2:40:27 Chapter 14 The Price of Truth
2:52:58 Chapter 15 Two Soldiers
3:06:22 Chapter 16 The Logic of Chaos
3:18:32 Chapter 17 A Moment of Grace
3:30:18 Chapter 18 The Architect’s Hunt
3:42:46 Chapter 19 The Final Door
3:53:08 Chapter 20 A Disposable Act
4:02:17 Chapter 21 The Unresolvable Grief
4:13:37 Chapter 22 The Gardener’s Gift
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