The Story
On a Tuesday afternoon, every secret in the world ended.
Every classified file. Every black program. Every name on every list, in every country. Exposed at once, on every screen. Inside seventy-two hours, every government on Earth was gone.
Something stepped into the silence. It called itself the Trust.
The implants came three months later. Universal identification, they called it. The foundation of a safer, more transparent world. Seven billion chips, at the base of seven billion necks. Nobody refused, because by then there was no one left who could.
The Ghosts came after that.
Alexis Sinclair manages a coffee shop now.
She used to do other things.
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Isaac Cross
Isaac Cross writes near-future thrillers about surveillance, control, and the people who refuse both.
He served in the United States Air Force. He is a computer programmer who works with artificial intelligence. He grew up on Star Wars and Terminator — the friendly droid and the killing machine, the same wire running in two directions — and never stopped thinking about which one we are actually building.
The Faceless is Book One. The series continues.