Reality has an operating system. Ryan Miller has just found the administrator's door.
When an elite cryptanalyst is summoned to a windowless government facility and handed forty-seven pages of impossible symbols, he expects an encrypted message. Instead, he discovers something far more dangerous: the administrative language beneath reality itself.
Every object has a record. Every person has a value. Space can hold two addresses. Death can be corrected-and the evidence erased.
For seventy years, a classified program has guarded this knowledge under three absolute commands: do not pray, do not signal, and do not gather at the surface. Its leaders believe secrecy is the only thing preventing humanity from attracting the attention of whatever operates the system.
Then Ryan enters the program's hidden archive.
What he finds forces an impossible choice: preserve a lie that may be keeping humanity alive, or expose a truth that no government-and perhaps no human mind-was meant to possess.
DO NOT TAP THE GLASS is a cerebral, high-concept science-fiction thriller about memory, institutional power, manufactured reality, and the terrible cost of deciding who is allowed to know the truth.