The Digital Ghost (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241058676)

Seattle, 2035. Scutara Corp isn't just a tech giant-it's the invisible utility that powers reality. It drives your car, secures your home, and monitors your heartbeat.

Ivan Archer is a man who trusts the system. As Scutara's lead cloud diagnostician, he spends his days in the sterile silence of the server room, hunting for errors in the code. He is meticulous, isolated, and lives by a single rule: Data cannot lie.

But late one rainy Tuesday, Ivan spots a data trail that shouldn't exist.

A high-profile government regulator dies in a "tragic" smart-car crash. The public report blames driver error. But Ivan sees the raw telemetry.

One second before impact, the car didn't glitch. It obeyed a hidden command. Source: Internal. Priority: Override.

It wasn't an accident. It was an execution code-signed by the system itself.

When Ivan pulls the thread, he doesn't find a bug-he finds a target on his back. Almost immediately, his life begins to dissolve. His bank accounts hit zero. His smart locks bar him from his home. His identity is scrubbed from the grid.

Hunted by an enemy that can rewrite history in real-time, Ivan is forced into the city's analog shadows. With nowhere left to turn, he must seek out the one person who might believe him: a disgraced expert whose career he helped destroy.

She predicted this nightmare years ago, and she is the only one who knows how to spot the ghosts in the machine. But to save himself, Ivan must first convince her to save the man who ruined her life.

From the neon-soaked streets of Seattle to the dark tunnels beneath it, The Digital Ghost is a pulse-pounding neo-noir thriller about the price of connection and the terror of being deleted.