The Ghost Broker

In the rain-slicked alleys of Meridian City, Elias Voss loses his disability appeal and plunges into a solitary abyss. Cut off from society, he drifts through the hidden forums of the dark web until he reinvents himself as a phantom middleman for untraceable assassinations, paid solely in bitcoin. His transactions leave no fingerprints, only a trail of bodies dismissed as accidents. When a retired hacker, Jude Mercer, stumbles upon an anomalous string of blockchain entries linked to a decade-old ghost protocol, he is pulled back online. What follows is a cat-and-mouse descent into the mind of a man whose isolation has blurred the line between a meticulously engineered fantasy and a very real body count.