Angol
When investigative journalist Chris Dodson follows a missing-person lead beneath Chicago, he discovers an underground economy that doesn't kill its enemies-it consumes them.
Hidden beneath hospitals, courtrooms, and boardrooms is a market where human consciousness is harvested and sold. Journalists are the most valuable product. Their curiosity, skepticism, and courage are extracted and fed to elites who believe intelligence can be eaten, absorbed, and weaponized.
As Chris exposes the conspiracy, he becomes its next resource-surviving the process but losing the very instincts that made him dangerous. The truth is classified. The monsters remain protected. And the system that feeds on inquiry continues to operate in plain sight.
Now recruited into a covert federal task force hunting similar operations across the country, Chris must decide whether to accept managed erasure-or risk everything to reclaim the part of himself that was taken.
A modern gothic conspiracy thriller where the real horror isn't what hides in the dark, but what thrives under fluorescent lights.
Perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic, Severance, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
