Smash The System.
Find The Truth.
Keller Street is where the city leaves its dead
Detective Alex Mercer catches a graveyard-shift homicide in one of New Nottingham’s forgotten corridors, the case should be routine. It isn’t.The victim was arranged, not dumped. The wound was too precise for street violence.Follow Mercer through the night as witnesses retract statements, the city refuses to cooperate, and police records vanish.Someone is erasing the reason the murder happened.
Control is an illusion
City of Containment - Coming Soon
A late-night security feed catches a killer on camera. Three bodies dumped in a rain-slick alley. Surveillance never sleeps, corporations protect and serve themselves, whilst every buried truth has a cost.Detective Alex Mercer knows the city is dirty. He doesn’t expect it to be organised. Mercer is pulled into a widening investigation through illegal clinics, black-market operators, demolition drones, and a hidden vault.
Welcome to New Nottingham
Once a city with pride in its independence, now it's full of of decay, greed, and corporate pressure. In a city run by systems, exposing the truth does not end control, it merely decides who holds it next no matter the cost.In New Nottingham surveillance never sleeps, and neither do the corporations working to bury the truth through institutional pressure, control of the media, and a system built to close ranks.
Meet The Author
Steven Devonport is an author who started writing Cyberpunk thrillers about broken systems, people, and buried truths. As a hobby.He's worked in Software Quality for over 30 years and met some very entertaining people along the way.The City of Containment is Steve’s debut novel, exploring the dark underbelly of a high-tech city, built on surveillance, corruption, and consequences, through the eyes of Detective Alex Mercer.His other passions are retro arcade games, hiking, and good beer, which he uses for inspiration for his stories.
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