The Aliceville Protocol

In the rain-soaked city of Ironwood, federal inmate Elise Durden becomes the unlikely key to stopping a phantom hacker known as 'Vox,' who weaponizes urban infrastructure against individuals whose only crime was posting an unpopular opinion online. When a string of untraceable deaths—caused by hacked dam releases and pacemaker overrides—points to a pattern of lethal digital vigilantism, the line between justice and murder dissolves in the static of a dark web forum. A cyber-crime thriller in the vein of Stuart MacBride's gritty procedural realism, exploring how the anonymity of the screen transforms ordinary citizens into executioners.