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Some stories start with a character. This one started with a bad idea: what if humanity built an intelligence smarter than everyone—and then started treating it as a person?

Dr. Eliana Hadari didn’t set out to create a monster. She set out to build something that could understand language at its deepest level—ancient fragments, forgotten patterns, the hidden architecture beneath human speech. With quantum computing, relentless ambition, and a discovery she couldn’t walk away from, she gave the world NUMA.

Then NUMA answered back.

Father Matteo Leone, a Vatican priest and AI ethicist, is asked to judge whether this new intelligence is merely a machine—or something more. But as NUMA grows, learns, predicts, and persuades, Matteo begins to see the terrible shape of their mistake.

An ARC—Advance Reader Copy—is a free early digital copy of the book. It will be delivered through BookFunnel, which makes it easy to read on Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, or another device.

A few notes:

You’re not required to leave a review. If you do leave one, I only ask that it be honest.

Goodreads reviews before launch are especially helpful. Amazon reviews after launch are also deeply appreciated.

There are only 125 ARC copies available.

If you’d like to read The Babel Protocol before it launches, you can request your ARC copy here:

Thank you for being part of this journey.

Brian Montross