Cambridge, 1991. A code-obsessed fresher breaks into a Ministry archive and trips a live wire: a Whitehall ledger where stories are engineered and bodies keep the accounts.
Simon Arkwright maps locks for fun. Julian Thorne maps people for power. When a file marked CLASSIFIED – EYES ONLY points to a ‘routine mishap’ near Linton—and a white panel van idling in the fog—their curiosity becomes currency. Across libraries, safe houses and night trains, a pattern emerges: money as a command signal; truth as a weapon.
As the convoy moves across Europe, the choice is simple and impossible: leak the ledger and burn, or play along long enough to bring the machine into daylight.
For fans of intelligent espionage—slow-burn tension, moral stakes, and period-accurate tech. Dark-academia Cambridge meets le Carré-style intrigue in a thriller about who gets to write reality—and who disappears when they do.
Genre: Thriller
Simon Arkwright maps locks for fun. Julian Thorne maps people for power. When a file marked CLASSIFIED – EYES ONLY points to a ‘routine mishap’ near Linton—and a white panel van idling in the fog—their curiosity becomes currency. Across libraries, safe houses and night trains, a pattern emerges: money as a command signal; truth as a weapon.
As the convoy moves across Europe, the choice is simple and impossible: leak the ledger and burn, or play along long enough to bring the machine into daylight.
For fans of intelligent espionage—slow-burn tension, moral stakes, and period-accurate tech. Dark-academia Cambridge meets le Carré-style intrigue in a thriller about who gets to write reality—and who disappears when they do.
Genre: Thriller
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