The Dead Man's Switch

Set in the industrial underbelly of the Republic of Albion, a disgraced railway signalman, Elias Thorne, murders and assumes the identity of the railroad tycoon who got him fired. After the tycoon wins a landmark tax case regarding a catastrophic train crash, Thorne executes a perfect technical impersonation of the dead man. As he navigates the sterile boardrooms and legal loopholes, the precision of his forgery only hollows out his soul, leading him to realize that he has become nothing but a ghost trapped in another man’s greed. A Norman Mailer-esque psychological thriller exploring the existential void behind the American Dream.