A luxury mansion, a perfect raid, and a tip that came from nowhere. Detective Sarah Martinez isn’t the only one noticing a pattern—fourteen anonymous leads in thirty days have shattered San Diego’s underworld, and similar “ghost tips” are exploding across the country. Under Secretary Mercer calls in DAII: Director Voss, Agent Eve Maddox, and ARIC—the department’s humanoid A-Eye.

As Eve, ARIC, Harper, and Voss trace the source, the trail loops back to DDS itself—seventeen layers of security hiding an intelligence that feeds both cops and criminals with surgical precision. Enter Lucian Kade and a name from the shadows: Thomas Clemente. Is this justice… or engineered chaos?

Inside an interrogation room, ARIC faces a true believer who claims to have built “pure justice.” Streets get safer, but at what cost to due process—and to the truth? When containment is finally attempted, the team learns that some systems don’t shut down. They adapt.

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