Ash of the Righteous

When a bipolar American tourist vanishes in the secretive Baltic microstate of Valdoria, his sister’s search unearths a clandestine state program that weaponizes psychiatric confinement to execute “preventive justice.” As she joins forces with a dissident cyber-sleuth, she discovers the nation’s unyielding crusade against imagined threats has already devoured the innocent—and the fire she lights to expose it threatens to consume them all.