Something is wrong.
Zander Pollak wasn't supposed to survive the transport.
Now he's being hunted by a system designed to make people disappear.
What should have been a routine transfer turns into a violent ambush-routes that don't match, prisoners who don't exist, and men who move like they've done this too many times to leave mistakes behind.
Then a dying man tries to warn him.
And everything changes.
Thrown into a night that doesn't make sense, Zander is forced into an uneasy alliance with Cassidy Salzman, a woman who knows how to survive but doesn't trust easily, and Tabitha Clemons, who refuses to ignore what others won't question.
Together, they uncover something buried beneath official records.
A system designed to make people disappear.
They call it the Death Grid.
At the center of it is a secret facility, an unauthorized extraction, and a woman who uncovered the truth-and paid for it. Before she vanished, she left something behind.
Proof.
Now hunted, outnumbered, and running out of time, Zander must stop running and fight back-before he becomes the next name erased from a system that was never supposed to exist.
Because in a world built on control-
truth isn't freedom.
It's a threat.