The system is everywhere.

Mercer does not kidnap people with guns, ropes, or locked rooms. It uses court orders, hospital transfers, flight records, visitor badges, and the quiet authority of people who appear to belong.

FBI Special Agent Gary Cook has spent years searching for the truth about his missing sister. When former operative Deacon Fulton reveals that Rachel may have disappeared inside Mercer’s hidden network, Gary joins investigative journalist Elle Jensen and a scattered group of survivors determined to expose it. But Mercer can see them through every system they trust.

To survive, they must abandon their phones, their records, and the official channels meant to protect them. To bring Mercer down, they must create the one thing the organization cannot resist—an open door.

“Mercer can see them through every system they trust.”