Vengeance is the only upgrade he never wanted.
Two hunters. One ghost. A city built on lies.
In the flooded, neon-choked ruins of a future London known as The Smoke, private investigator Ángel Castillo is a relic—a “nat” detective who refuses the neural augmentations of a broken age. Haunted by a fractured memory and his wife’s disappearance, he lives by a code the world has long since traded for silicon.
But the Smoke is screaming.
A philosophical assassin named Lobinho is systematically gutting The Organisation, leaving a ritualistic trail of blood as he hunts the man who murdered his own wife. To stop him, Castillo must sacrifice his humanity, installing the illegal Chaos X.7 wetware—a neural implant that connects him to the digital abyss but shatters his grip on reality.
As their paths collide atop a nanotech space-tether, the hunter and the hunted are drawn into a conspiracy that spans decades. To survive, Castillo must anchor his sanity against a flood of a dead man’s memories and the relentless pulse of a hijacked AI named ANA—a ghost in the machine that threatens to overwrite his very soul.
In the Smoke, the truth doesn't just haunt—it kills.
Coming in 2027