The Benevolent Assessor

In the Republic of Veridia, former disability claims adjuster Elias Voss uncovers a pattern of impossible suicides among rejected applicants. When every clue points to a psychological warfare program that erases the will to live, Voss realizes the mastermind is a revered colleague who has transformed the Social Protection Tribunal into an engine of systematic murder—using the power to deny as the ultimate weapon of control.