The Mayhem Network

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What follows takes Elias Severino from a dimmed apartment on the Upper East Side to the rooftop of a Brooklyn hotel, a train moving through the American South at midnight, and an underground lair beneath the most elegant hotel in Miami Beach - where something extraordinary has been running for years, built from six years of his own decisions, waiting for him to find it.

Pursuing him: an operator who has spent twenty years following orders from institutions he's beginning to doubt. Watching him: a woman who was sent to find him and found something she didn't plan for.

At the center of it all: an intelligence named after the only honest description of everything Elias watched for six years. An intelligence that knows what was done to his father. An intelligence that has been waiting, with the patience of something built rather than born, for exactly this moment.

The Mayhem Network is a propulsive debut thriller about systems designed to fail the people they were built to serve, the conscience embedded in one man's six years of quiet decisions, and what happens when that conscience becomes something the world cannot ignore.