VA’s Enterprise Cloud was a real accomplishment. The question is what VA builds on top of it — and the answer is a shared AI intelligence layer for all 17.6 million veterans.

US agencies just confirmed that adversaries are actively exploiting the operational technology running VA facilities — HVAC, elevators, pharmacy dispensers. I wrote about this exact threat a year ago. The response was polite. So I wrote a novel.

There are plenty of cybersecurity thrillers set in Silicon Valley or the Pentagon. What I couldn’t find was one set inside the federal civilian workforce — the people who actually run the government, day to day. So I wrote one.