Every Fingerprint on the Blade

In the Federated States of Mercia, a near-future welfare state governed by algorithmic austerity, historian Elias Vane unearths classified archives proving the nation's founding was built on systematic erasures. When the Bureau of Social Provision's automated debt recovery engine marks him for elimination, Vane must digitally stage his own death and be reborn through the very system that condemned him. A harrowing exploration of how collective silence engraves every bystander's fingerprint onto the weapon of oppression, the novel fuses cryptographic intrigue with a stark warning that indifference is the sharpest edge of the guillotine.