Smash The System.
Find The Truth.

The gripping prequel to The City of Containment

When 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. Her wounds were too precise for street violence. Her cybernetics show signs of recent off-book work, and every attempt to identify her starts failing in ways that shouldn’t happen on a live homicide.As Mercer follows the trail through black-market clinics, illegal courier routes, and corporate infrastructure built to hide what matters, the city starts closing around the file.Witnesses retract. Records vanish. The truth narrows.Someone isn’t just burying a murder. They’re erasing the reason it happened.

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City of Containment

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.

Meet The Author

As a writer, Steve gives his readers fast-paced, Cyberpunk thrillers about broken systems, people, and buried truths.By day, Steve has worked in I.T. for over 30 years, and in his spare time, you might find him hiking across the country sampling great beer and food, playing retro arcade games, or even writing the next story set in the dystopian near-future city called New Nottingham.Steve interacts with his readers primarily on Bluesky.

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