The 13th Scoop

In a city of marble and neon built upon a foundation of human "hardware," Liam White is a man hunted by his own legacy. For years, the Internal Security Bureau has maintained a stranglehold on society using the Red Crow—an army of cybernetic soldiers whose nervous systems are mapped to a central, sentient Mainframe. ​When Liam discovers that his missing father, Cole White, didn't just design the system but became it, his quest for survival turns into a mission of absolute destruction. As the Alpha—the only biological subject capable of 100% synchronization with the network—Liam holds the key to either perfecting the Bureau’s digital god or crashing the entire machine from the inside. ​Captured and brought to the heart of the Capital, Liam is plugged into the Core, where the lines between his physical body and his father’s digital void begin to blur. Armed with nothing but his mother’s hidden research and a bone-deep hatred for the system, Liam must navigate a world of "ghosts in the wires" to find the delete key before he is consumed by the very harvest he was born to lead.