The Calculus of Power

By Deep .

A searing literary thriller about wealth, predation, and the institutional machinery that protects the powerful

Adrian Voss was fourteen when he discovered that the world ran not on merit but on leverage.

Born in a fading naval town south of San Diego, he possessed a mathematical genius that could decode any system-financial, social, or human. By thirty, he had built a shadow empire spanning three continents, funded by a reclusive defense billionaire and operated with the help of Katarina Linden, the brilliant daughter of a disgraced Scandinavian shipping magnate.

Together, they constructed an unprecedented machine: a network of surveillance, exploitation, and mutual complicity that ensnared senators, industrialists, and intelligence agencies in a web of shared secrets so dense that its unraveling would bring down the powerful on three continents.

But every system has a breaking point.

When a fourteen-year-old girl from a working-class suburb and a stubborn detective refuse to be silenced, the calculus of power begins its final computation-revealing that the man who thought he was the architect was always just another wall in someone else's building.

A searing literary thriller about wealth, predation, and the institutional machinery that protects the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTQ7GRJQ
• ISBN13: 9798253364468
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"