Elias Thorne is drowning under the weight of global infrastructure, and his mind is beginning to fracture.
As Director of Infrastructure for Calyx, Elias is responsible for keeping global financial markets online. Crushing executive pressure and relentless burnout threaten to unravel his career. Desperate to hold onto his edge, he leverages a hidden backdoor to hijack a spot in an unauthorized clinical trial for Synapse-Alpha—an experimental compound promising cognitive optimization and freedom from mental fatigue.
At first, the drug seems to offer the competitive breakthrough he desperately needs. But as alarming biological side effects take hold, the line between peak mental performance and dangerous self-destruction blurs. To stay alive, Elias must out-hack the very medical infrastructure that altered him before his mind and body permanently collapse.