Thomas Vale is one of the government's most trusted intelligence analysts—a man who sees patterns where others see noise. But when a string of high-profile resignations begins to trace a perfect algorithm, he stumbles upon something he was never meant to find: a classified protocol known only as Project Quietus.

As he follows the trail, memories begin to shift. Names disappear. Faces blur. And Thomas can't tell if he's unraveling a conspiracy—or unraveling himself. Old allies begin to vanish or reappear altered. A strange spiral pin haunts his path. And a voice from his past returns with impossible knowledge of what's coming.

The deeper he digs, the more reality bends around him. Every lead points inward. Every discovery tightens the loop.

Why is his name on sealed documents he doesn't remember writing?

Why do security systems recognize him in rooms he's never entered?

And why do his reflections blink a moment too late?

In a world designed to overwrite truth itself, one analyst becomes the final node in a buried architecture. He must confront a question that no operative should ever ask—

What if the system was always you?