The Silent Run

Sixteen-year-old Luka Vance stumbles into a hidden corner of the dark web and witnesses a live murder, instantly marking him as prey for a global network of assassins known as The Coil. Fleeing his coastal town, he finds uneasy refuge on a fictional indigenous reservation where treaty fishing rights have been destroyed by state-neglected culverts. In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith, the story twists through moral fog: the law protects the powerful, killers walk with impunity, and survival demands becoming something unrecognizable. As Luka digs deeper, the culverts reveal not just ecological crime but a conspiracy tying assassins to government officials. To stay alive, he must weaponize the same dark web that condemned him, sacrificing pieces of his soul in a world where justice is a ghost and every escape leads deeper into grey water.