CODENAME: LIB3RTY

A thriller about the people caught inside the system

A father leaves a laptop on a sleeping boy's desk and walks out the door. He does not say goodbye. He does not explain. He leaves behind a cracked screen, a Linux partition, and a future his son did not choose.

Thirteen years later, Zach Reeves is twenty years old, self-taught, and living in a council flat in Croydon with his night-shift nurse mother. When he stumbles upon a classified document hidden on a government server, he uncovers Project Meridian, a secret programme to monitor and control every financial transaction in Britain.

He cannot fight this alone. He finds Lily, a data science student carrying the weight of her immigrant parents' dreams. Jane, a care leaver from Manchester who has never had a home but has never stopped running. And Steve, the son of a Hungarian intelligence officer, whose discipline hides a loyalty that will be tested to its limit.

Together they wage a war against an enemy with no public name, no public face, and no boundary it will not cross. They are hacked, hunted, and betrayed by someone they trusted. One of them is taken. The others must decide how far they are willing to go to get her back.

But the deeper they dig, the more they discover that the conspiracy is not what it appears. The exposure they fought for may have been part of the plan.

CODENAME: LIB3RTY is intended for readers aged 18 and over. It contains themes of surveillance, cyber warfare, abduction and psychological tension. It is a work of fiction. All characters, organisations and events are products of the author's imagination.