The Algorithm of Alms

When Cyrus Voss, a data engineer trapped in visa limbo, deciphers an anomaly in a church charity database, he uncovers a global financial conspiracy where sanctified donations mask a trillion-dollar laundering empire. Racing against a system that defines success by the purity of one's public virtue, Cyrus must weaponize his algorithmic obsession to expose the holy fraud—knowing that the architects of this moral mirage will kill to preserve their sainthood. Set in a near-future Washington D.C. where bureaucratic purgatory and techno-theology collide, this Andy Weir-esque thriller dissects a society so addicted to the performance of goodness that it has made righteousness the perfect crime.