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A High-Tech Cyber Thriller

A father leaves a laptop on a sleeping boy’s desk and walks out the door. He does not say goodbye. He does not explain. He leaves behind a
cracked screen, a Linux partition, and a future his son did not choose.
Thirteen years later, Zach Reeves is twenty years old, self-taught, and
living in a council flat in Croydon with his night-shift nurse mother.

When he stumbles upon a classified document hidden on a government server, he uncovers something that should not exist:Project Meridian, a secret programme using advanced AI systems to monitor and control every financial transaction in Britain, already live, already watching, embedded in the systems that manage trillions of dollars of the world’s money.

He cannot fight this alone. He finds three others: Lily, a data science
student carrying the weight of her immigrant parents’ dreams. Jane, a
care leaver from Manchester who has never had a home but has never
stopped running. And Steve, the son of a Hungarian intelligence officer,
whose discipline hides a capacity for loyalty that will be tested to its limit.

They are pulled into a cyber war involving government surveillance, financial manipulation, and hidden AI infrastructure. They are hacked, hunted, and betrayed by someone they trusted. One of them is taken.

The others must decide how far they are willing to go to get her back. But the deeper they dig, the more they discover that the conspiracy is not what it appears. That the exposure they fought for was part of the plan.

That the real threat is something far larger, far darker, and far more personal than any of them imagined. And that the man who started it all may be the one person Zach has spent his whole life trying to forget.


- Author
Dimitrios Zacharopoulos is a cyber security expert with decades of experience in IT, digital forensics, and AI systems. His work focuses on surveillance technologies, financial systems, and emerging threats.

- Prologue Audio
https://youtu.be/0O0gP7qJ7Po?si=LE275CICZNwtpX3R