Volume 1: The Asset That Shouldn’t Have Survived
Synopsis:
In the near-future shadows of 2030 Boston, the world isn’t run by governments—it’s managed by private syndicates, black-budget think tanks, and corporate militaries in tailored suits. One of their most effective weapons is Sevryx, a surgically designed operative with no past, no voice, and no memory beyond the next mission.
He eliminates high-value targets without question. No identity. No attachments. No failures.
Until a mission glitches.
When a vivid hallucination—a child’s scream, a hand slipping from his—shatters his neural interface mid-operation, Sevryx begins to question the truth behind his missions… and himself. The Black Gambit Group says it’s a system error. But when an anonymous message hijacks his neural feed with a list of names and a chilling message—
> “THEY MADE YOU FORGET. MAKE THEM REMEMBER.”
—Sevryx realizes the truth is buried in the memories they tried to erase.
Now hunted by IRIS-7, a new prototype assassin built without empathy, and aided by a rogue hacker who knows the name he once lived by, Sevryx must unlock the past they stole from him.
Before the final name on the hit list becomes his own.
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Themes:
Lost identity & memory manipulation
Tech-noir espionage
Psychological recovery through action
The ethics of privatized warfare