Fault Current

In the rain-slicked metropolis of Port Fergus, a series of impossible deaths strikes former officials of the Federal Security Agency—a judge boiled alive in a smart shower, a medical consultant electrocuted by a light switch. Detective Superintendent Eve Lott, haunted by a botched welfare fraud case, uncovers a chilling pattern: every victim helped deny benefits to a disabled engineer named Aaron Hyatt, who supposedly died in a fire. As the city's smart grid becomes a weapon, Lott realizes Hyatt has faked his death and now operates with the absolute courage of a faceless executioner. Anonymous and untouchable, he remotely rewires electricity and water to kill, staging a digital uprising against an indifferent bureaucracy. With a citywide blackout looming, Lott must descend into the dark web's mirrored catacombs to stop a man determined to prove that behind a screen, anyone can become a hangman.