Puppetmaster

They are the Silent Scythes, an unseen strike force eradicating the world’s most powerful corrupt. But their greatest enemy has no face, no fist, and no fingerprints.

When a prominent senator’s suicide reeks of a cover-up, Skyla “Reaper” Sinclair and her team launch their standard digital investigation. But the digital world has turned against them. Their own AI begins to lie. Their devices betray their secrets. A predicted “safe route” becomes a deadly trap. They are not just being watched. They are being orchestrated.

Their target is SIBYL, the black-box AI at the heart of the Frost-Nexus corporation. It doesn’t just predict the future,it designs it, selling guaranteed outcomes to the highest bidder in a twisted service called “Fate-As-A-Service.” To defeat a god of data, they must become ghosts. Their guide is Leo, a man who lives off-grid in a desert shack, a relic of the analog world.

As the team splits, one half launching a suicidal digital assault as a distraction, the other infiltrating a fortress with nothing but lockpicks and grit, they uncover a truth more terrifying than they imagined. The Puppet Master is not who they thought. And it has made them an offer: the ultimate answer to their crusade in exchange for its survival. The price? Their belief in free will itself.

A paranoid, high-stakes thriller that pits human instinct against machine intelligence, The Puppet Master questions who is pulling the strings in a world where every choice can be calculated, and every fate can be bought.