The Claims Machine

In the iron-gray corridors of the Veridian Social Security Bureau, rejections are printed with the same indifference as funeral notices. Elias Vane, a weary assassin, is assigned one last contract: silence a young orphan who threatens to expose the cost-cutting machinery that traded thousands of lives for profit. But when he sees his own haunted childhood reflected in the boy, Elias must decide whether to pull the trigger or tear down the very system that created them both.