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The Books
Agentic Armor LLC publishes the author’s nonfiction: one book, one essay — one machine viewed from two centuries.
HOW IT WORKS
- Open a book below and read its first pages, free, on this page’s shelf.
- Buy it where books are sold, in the edition you keep.
- The Single System follows — the same machine, drawn as one system.
WHERE IT STANDS — Shadows of Influence is on sale now. The Single System is forthcoming; its standing prints here when it moves.
YOUR HOST — Edith the Record Keeper — the books are kept the way she keeps everything: written down and filed right. Meet your host.
Books by Michael R. Brotherton
Agentic Armor LLC publishes the author’s nonfiction: one book, one essay, one machine viewed from two centuries.
Shadows of Influence
How the U.S.–Israel Intelligence Relationship Shaped American Power, from the OSS to 2026.
Fourteen chapters. Four threads, the Machine, Leverage, Maxwell, Money & Power. Read it straight through, or follow one thread and watch the same century change shape. Sourcing standard printed in the foreword: documents over insiders, allegations labeled, absence stated as absence.
Audiobook $17.99 · Bundle $22.99 (separately $27.98) · PDF $9.99, Chapter 1 free to hear.
SHADOWS OF INFLUENCE
Four threads. Fourteen chapters.
Read it straight through, or pull one thread and watch the same century change shape.
THE MACHINE THREAD
how the surveillance tools got built
THE LEVERAGE THREAD
how secrets became a weapon
THE MAXWELL THREAD
one family’s line through the whole story
THE MONEY & POWER THREAD
who paid and who profited
The Single System
How money, minerals, code, orbit, and borders became one machine.
The companion essay, in the present tense: two operating systems, one nervous system of oil, a minerals race that is the war, algorithms as weapons, and orbit as the next chokepoint. Pull one thread. Watch the whole web move.
Free 10-minute sample at the essay’s home.
The audiobook editions are narrated by AI, disclosed here as on every storefront and in the books’ own front matter.
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