Jacob Zero is about to die. Again.
In a near-future London, empathy is a crime. Compassion gets you arrested or worse, disappeared.
But for sixteen-year-old Jacob, the privileged son of a notorious Empyrean Magistrate, his humanity drags him into a far darker fate than he ever imagined.
Forced by his mother to undergo an emotion-suppressing brain implant, Jacob soon discovers he's carrying stolen data.
Code that shouldn't exist.
Hidden inside his implant.
Now haunted by terrifying visions of infinite futures and his own endless deaths, the implant burns through his mind, killing him... just like it killed his dad.
To survive, Jacob and his best mate, Ethan, must race across a deadly, divided city.
Hunted by his mother and those who will stop at nothing to reclaim the secret, Jacob must uncover the truth behind his deadly visions before capture, or the implant burns him from the inside out.
The closer he gets to the answer, the more Jacob Zero realises he wasn't chosen by accident.