Dr. Elias Vance was the world’s leading expert on the architecture of human dissolution. He authored the Aegis Protocol—a terrifying blend of spatial disorientation and acoustic manipulation designed to strip a person of their very self. He sold the system to a private contractor for a fortune and never looked back.
Now, framed for treason and sentenced to life, Elias is the newest resident of The Chrysalis, a black-site facility buried deep beneath an Icelandic glacier. He is no longer the architect; he is a test subject in the very cage he designed. In a place where reality is administered and the floor is a vector pointing toward the void, his only anchor is a sequence of numbers.
Outside the ice, Kaiser Volkov is hunting. A man who refuses to believe that a human being can be made to disappear without a trace, Volkov follows a trail of maritime knots and military-grade sedatives to penetrate a fortress designed to be invisible. In a world of corporate espionage and psychological warfare, only one truth remains: