Phantom Positions

In the sleek corridors of a Lucenian tech titan, the battle for a vacant COO seat descends into a labyrinth of fabricated digital identities, anonymous poisonings, and silent blackmail. Inspector Alistair Finch, a weary detective haunted by the city's glass facades, discovers that when every credential, access log, and medical record can be coded into a lie, the true criminals are phantoms moving through servers. In this world, white-collar savagery wears the mask of algorithms, and justice becomes a ghost hunt. A Donna Leon-inspired exploration of civilization's thin veneer.