The Reckoning Protocol

In the Federated States of Columbia, after 19-year-old Elyse Aldridge is driven to suicide by a viral social media mob, her father Marcus is wrongfully convicted and sent to a notorious federal prison. There, he meets a jailhouse lawyer fighting the Bureau of Prisons over a lost property claim, and learns to weaponize the very system that failed his daughter. Years later, armed with a clandestine data-mining network built from inside prison walls, Marcus orchestrates a chilling, methodical offline reckoning against every person who clicked, shared, and condemned. This Lawrence Wright-style legal and technological thriller dissects the collision of institutional rot, mob mentality, and one man's crusade to redraw the boundaries of justice.