Deadman`s Hands

By: Yates, Douglas

District 6 runs on prediction. Every movement, choice, and life is shaped by the System - a vast, humming architecture that has modeled its citizens with flawless precision for decades. But when Jimmy Taber enters the grid, the calculations falter. Glitches ripple through surveillance nodes. Traffic corridors hesitate. The hum shifts. Jimmy is the one variable the System cannot model.
Summer Bromm, a systems analyst with forbidden knowledge, recognizes the pattern: something older is waking beneath the district. Marcus Redd, a loyal officer, finds himself torn as the anomalies spread and the System tightens its grip.
Deep below the grid, the Origin - a buried pre-system framework - stirs in response to Jimmy's presence. As the System fractures and the Origin rises, District 6 teeters between two competing intelligences.
To survive, Jimmy must confront what he truly is: not a glitch, but the catalyst that will break the district's perfect order.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GCZS93P8
• ISBN13: 9798241751355
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"