The premise
Memory has become infrastructure.
Valentine Ortiz built the algorithms that protect the government’s most valuable asset: combat skills downloaded from thousands of elite soldiers and stored as memory. No one knows he’s been testing them on himself—no encryption, no safeguards, no way to lock them back up. Edward Vance lives in the shadows. A hacker. A memory bootlegger. He sells the very experiences Valentine was hired to secure.
Then, their worlds are torn apart. Both men become fugitives—hunted not for what they’ve done, but for what they haven’t. Set up. Chosen as disposable pawns in a much larger game. A powerful tech magnate needs the technology as his escape hatch from a past that’s about to surface, planning to sell it to the highest bidder and bury a wartime atrocity for a life of luxury beyond extradition.
Now, Valentine and Vance—guided by a mysterious hacker whose motives are unknown—must survive long enough to expose the lie, protect the country they both love, and clear their names, so they can answer only for the crimes they actually committed.