Whispers in the Code

A fatal police shooting of a mentally ill Black man in Bayhaven ignites a firestorm. Former data engineer Lucius Cane discovers the killing was no accident, but a sentence handed down by an algorithm. As he plunges into the city’s digital underworld, he uncovers a tech giant’s conspiracy to codify prejudice into a surveillance system, and a shadow government that executes “pre-crime” purges. From silicon crypts to the decaying sanctuaries of secret societies, Cane must expose how the silent whispers of big data become a scream for blood.