Zero Data

In 1950s America imagining the 21st century, Charles Saphro conceived a nightmare that feels eerily familiar today: a world where the right technology can make you untouchable. Jason is a police officer in a near-future city, and he's onto something big. Lonnie Raichi is a respected philanthropist, a businessman with connections and charm, and a criminal operating in plain sight. The problem isn't evidence. The problem is that every tool Jason uses to investigate Lonnie returns nothing but zero data. Advanced technology has become the ultimate shield. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game where the mouse has all the advantages. Saphro writes with the hard-boiled precision of noir, letting the frustration build as Jason hits wall after wall. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes that Lonnie's real weapon isn't money or violence it's a philosophy that exploits the very systems designed to catch criminals. This is tech-thrilling at its earliest and most prophetic, a novel that asks what happens when the tools of justice become instruments of their own failure.