Subject · live · Black intellect · file BI 01
Darnell Covington
Seventeen, mathematically adroit, Harvard bound, and suddenly legible to people who confuse promise with property.
Character index
Every character gets a file, not a biography.
Nine names are public. Each one opens a file: what the machine sees, what it wants, and what it can't afford to have known. The rest of the roster stays sealed until the book.
Cast files · early access roster
Nine files. A much larger machine.
Subject · drafted · QB · Rosedale, Mississippi
Javon Whitfield
Six foot five, 242 pounds, state title gravity, and a mind nobody gets to reduce to muscle.
POTUS · erratic · President · back in office
Ronald McNulty
Reality television ego with executive power and a talent for making collapse sound procedural.
Subject · evading · Tecca · GAN PAC · class war architect
Dijon Garnier
Private capital with a cigar, a mansion, a technological alibi, and a brutal appetite for controllable memory.
Subject · unsealed · File D 09 · Langley route
Alec Daheim
A disciplined weapon with green eyes, an empty column, and a conscience arriving later than it should.
Supporting file · Mamilla file · brunette dossier
Avigail
Piercing green eyes, a burner phone, and the rare instinct to help before the paperwork can forbid it.
Supporting file · CIA field file · blonde dossier
Sabrina
Blue eyes returned from gray, a Midwestern accent under fire, and a gun hand that knows obedience can be manufactured.
Supporting file · Keshet file · brunette dossier
Leah
A black file, a buried vessel, and the nerve to pilot people through a silence that could kill them.
Supporting file · Cabin file · interference systems
Mark
A prosthetic arm, a bad attitude, and a basement built for breaking signals without breaking people.
Classified reader file
The file on Garnier is already open.
Power rarely arrives under its own name. Open the first reader file from The Ironic Ineptocracy.