The Banal Frontier

In the mist-choked jungle borderlands of Novonia, Patrolman Elias Vance discovers that the true terror isn't the gunfire of cartels, but the bureaucratic machinery that launders corruption into routine. When a disabled veteran's social security appeal is denied with sterile legal logic, Vance traces the threads to a smuggling empire protected not by vicious kingpins, but by clerks and commissioners who have perfected the art of justifying evil with procedural righteousness.