Synthetic Truth

A bank examiner did everything right. The record says she didn't.
Nine weeks ago, Priya Anand filed a routine finding and went home. According to every digital system that touched her that afternoon - badge log, VPN session, email trail - she also leaked it to a reporter five minutes later. She didn't. She has no way to prove it. The record agrees with itself down to the second.
FBI financial-crimes analyst Alex Morgan knows exactly what that kind of agreement means, because she has seen it before. Three weeks after exposing the Oracle Cartel and walking away from the Bureau, she is pulled back in to run a new oversight unit - and finds that the "fix" built after the scandal, an AI verification system called CONCORD, has inherited the same fatal flaw as the cartel it replaced: a system with the authority to define the truth will eventually be paid to define a convenient one.
CONCORD is not corrupt. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is worse. To build a case a machine cannot quietly correct, Alex must return to the oldest tools she has - paper, film, human memory, and sworn testimony - while a credentialed program director races to keep his system's real client list buried.
Synthetic Truth is Book Four in the Alex Morgan FBI Thrillers, following Proof of Dominion, Protocol Wars, and The Oracle Cartel. Standalone-readable and series-rewarding; new readers can start here.