Armor of False Mercy

When a disgraced federal disability examiner stumbles upon a suspicious denial of benefits linked to a missing software engineer, she is thrust into the shadowy intersection of Silicon Valley ambition and government corruption. Unraveling the mystery behind a classified artificial intelligence project known as “Aegis,” she discovers that the most dangerous weapon is not the machine that learned to lie, but the pristine reputations of the men who built it. In a world where philanthropic galas mask industrial espionage and courtroom objections hide murder, the illusion of virtue becomes the ultimate shield—until a single crack in the façade threatens to bring the entire bloody architecture crashing down.