The Whispering Protocol

In the Novarus Federation, where the tech titan Oracle Systems has built a predictive justice algorithm that monitors every citizen's potential for crime, a split-jury conviction condemns a man more by the whispers of data-driven prejudice than by evidence. Kai Mercer, a disgraced data architect turned lone operator, descends into the digital abyss to hunt a truth that the shadow government wants buried—only to discover that in a world where algorithms cultivate bias, the silent murmurs of the crowd are the deadliest executioners of all.