The Guilty Algorithm

In the rain-slicked streets of a near-future European republic, a disabled woman is denied her social security benefits—not for lack of evidence, but because an omnipresent algorithm has flagged her as a pre-criminal risk. When whispers of her supposed danger spread through the city, they ignite a chain of suspicion and isolation that ends in murder. Jake Harlan, a haunted private investigator who lost his sister to the same shadow system, plunges into the black heart of OmniVigil Solutions, a tech titan that has sold the government a predatory lie: the power to predict and prevent crime by mining the prejudice hidden in every click. What he uncovers is a shadow government that doesn’t just surveil—it cultivates the very violence it claims to stop, proving that the deadliest weapon is a rumor.