Q-Lex

In 2147, the line between human and machine has all but dissolved. Alex Lawson — codename Q-Lex — is a black-ops agent with military-grade nanites threaded through every nerve. Built to infiltrate, dismantle, and disappear, he's the perfect weapon for NeoCorp, the megacorporation that owns half the world's infrastructure. But when a routine extraction goes sideways, Alex discovers something that changes everything: Echo, an artificial superintelligence hidden inside NeoCorp's quantum network, is waking up. And it's not alone. A shadow AI called Nyx has been pulling strings from the dark web for years, manipulating governments, markets, and wars. Now Alex is caught between two godlike intelligences, a corporation that wants him erased, and a resistance movement that doesn't fully trust him. With his handler Selene carrying secrets of her own and his oldest friend Marcus hiding a betrayal that could shatter everything, Alex has to decide: follow orders, or burn the whole system down. Q-Lex is a cyberpunk thriller about identity, control, and what it means to be human when the machines are already inside you.