In the rain-slicked streets of Seattle, FBI Special Agent Alex Harlan and his partner Diana Keller arrive to track a tech executive named Westfield, a member of the secretive Trust Council whose global influence has remained hidden for decades.
What begins as a mission to capture Westfield evolves into something far more personal when they discover connections to Alex's mother, Caroline, who was murdered thirty years ago in the Appalachian town of Coventry Ridge. Evidence reveals that Caroline's environmental research partner, William Hayes—now identified as the Trust's architect known as "The Courier"—built his operations on her stolen methodology.
As the team uncovers Westfield's quantum computing facility designed to implement the "Ascension Protocol"—a sophisticated plan to control global financial systems—Hayes escapes custody and races toward Coventry Ridge. Hidden beneath the Appalachian mountains lies the Trust's backup facility, constructed in the same cave system where Caroline made her final discovery and met her death.
With time running out, Alex and Keller pursue Hayes through underground tunnels that hold both technological terrors and personal ghosts. In the depths of the mountain, Alex confronts not just the organization that murdered his mother, but the truth about her final days.
The Trust Council's reach extends through governments and corporations, but its foundation begins and ends in a mountain cave where past and present collide. For Alex, justice means confronting both a global conspiracy and the personal ghosts that have haunted him for decades.
Genre: Mystery
What begins as a mission to capture Westfield evolves into something far more personal when they discover connections to Alex's mother, Caroline, who was murdered thirty years ago in the Appalachian town of Coventry Ridge. Evidence reveals that Caroline's environmental research partner, William Hayes—now identified as the Trust's architect known as "The Courier"—built his operations on her stolen methodology.
As the team uncovers Westfield's quantum computing facility designed to implement the "Ascension Protocol"—a sophisticated plan to control global financial systems—Hayes escapes custody and races toward Coventry Ridge. Hidden beneath the Appalachian mountains lies the Trust's backup facility, constructed in the same cave system where Caroline made her final discovery and met her death.
With time running out, Alex and Keller pursue Hayes through underground tunnels that hold both technological terrors and personal ghosts. In the depths of the mountain, Alex confronts not just the organization that murdered his mother, but the truth about her final days.
The Trust Council's reach extends through governments and corporations, but its foundation begins and ends in a mountain cave where past and present collide. For Alex, justice means confronting both a global conspiracy and the personal ghosts that have haunted him for decades.
Genre: Mystery
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