Description

Ithica by Paul Sharpless is a darkly comic psychological and political thriller of military espionage, rogue AI, institutional corruption, queer noir, official silence and damaged lives.

Anthea thought she had escaped Ithica.

Forced out of hiding and dragged back toward the intelligence agency she fled, she finds herself trapped inside a world of military secrets, surveillance, corrupted loyalties, bureaucratic cruelty and official lies.

As old operations resurface and the machinery of power begins to close around her, Anthea must confront a system that protects itself at any cost — even when careers are destroyed, lives are ruined, and deaths are quietly explained away.

Drawn from more than 40 years of observation, experience and knowledge of institutional life, Ithica turns military espionage, bureaucracy, surveillance and corrupted power into a thriller with teeth, dark humour and a bitter aftertaste.

A hierarchy, armed with AI, against everyone else.