NEON ROT

Neon Rot Truth isn't freedom. It's a performance. New Freedom Metropolis is a city built on promises. Its towers scrape the clouds. Its screens never sleep. Its Senate governs with the confidence of gods, while millions below struggle to survive another day. Officer Minos F. Lanzo believes in that system. As commander of the newly formed Minotaurs, he is tasked with hunting a killer who calls himself Icarus — a masked vigilante leaving behind wax, feathers, and the corpses of the city's most powerful figures. As the murders grow bolder, the city begins to fracture. Riots spread through starving districts. Politicians scramble to maintain control. Artists become martyrs. Broadcasters become propagandists. And somewhere among the chaos, an obscure bookseller named Juude Polar watches events unfold from the quiet aisles of his shop. But New Freedom Metropolis is rotting from the inside. The deeper Minos digs, the more he discovers that Icarus may be exposing something far worse than corruption. He may be revealing the true foundation upon which the Republic was built. As violence erupts into revolution and revolution into civil war, two men are drawn toward an inevitable collision: one devoted to order, the other devoted to destruction. One serves the Republic. One seeks to burn away its lies. Neither is prepared for what remains when the smoke clears. A neo-noir dystopian thriller about power, spectacle, rebellion, and the stories societies tell themselves to survive.