The Last Clean Hands

In the fictional Meridian City, a botched security guard intervention leaves an unarmed father dead. Disgraced ex-detective Caleb Vance, haunted by his own failure to save a loved one from emotional predation, discovers the victim’s daughter was systematically driven to a suicide attempt by a shadowy pickup artist known only as “The Curator.” As Vance peels back layers of a city rotten with privatized violence and psychological trafficking, he realizes the only way to find a sliver of justice is to become the one thing he still despises—a predator of predators. His heroism is not a blaze of glory, but the quiet, unyielding choice to keep his conscience spotless while walking through a sewer of human manipulation.