Blind Vapor

A former flavor chemist, convicted in 1998 for a fatal tainted-vape batch that killed forty-three teenagers, walks free at seventy-two after DNA evidence exonerates him. But freedom is a cage of questions. With a failing heart and a retired DEA agent's diary, he peels back layers of a conspiracy that began not with malice, but with a regulator's petty ambition to secure a promotion. As he closes in on the living ghosts—a now-senator, a pharmaceutical CEO, and a disgraced judge—he learns the truest horror: his life was ruined so that someone else could avoid paperwork.