DEAD SIGNAL

A disgraced federal agent. A digital infiltrator. A soldier who never asks why. In the megacity of Neo-Veridia, Cole Maren used to run counter-intelligence for the government. Now he runs twelve-hour security shifts in the rain for forty credits a night. When a mysterious client offers him a job that would erase every debt he's ever carried, Cole assembles a three-person extraction team to pull a kidnapped researcher from a corporate black site buried forty levels underground. The job is simple: get in, get the target, get out. But the blueprints don't match the story. The security isn't keeping people out — it's keeping something in. And the woman they've been sent to rescue doesn't want to leave. What Cole's team finds beneath Kessler-Brandt tower will force each of them to answer a question no one is ready for — and the answer will reshape the city above them forever. DEAD SIGNAL is a five-chapter cyberpunk thriller about loyalty, deception, and what happens when you dig deep enough to find something that was never meant to be found.