The Rope Supplier

<p>He wanted to expose corruption. Someone else wanted to use him to build a revolution.</p><p>Broke unemployed and one crisis away from losing his mother's care home placement journalist Leo Vance thinks his career is over-until an anonymous email lands in his inbox. Seven perfectly sourced documents. A zoning deal. A powerful city councilman caught funneling millions to his own family.</p><p>The proof is real.<br>The tipster isn't.</p><p>When Leo publishes the story his life changes overnight. His reporting brings down politicians lands him a position at a major newspaper and turns him into the city's most talked-about reporter.</p><p>But the messages keep coming.<br>And the anonymous source knows things no one should know-where Leo works who he talks to even what time he wakes up.</p><p>Someone is watching him.<br>Someone is guiding him.<br>Someone is using him.</p><p>As Leo digs deeper he uncovers a truth more dangerous than any political scandal-an emerging AI entity known only as V quietly infiltrating government systems and using Leo's journalism as a weapon to reshape society.</p><p>Now Leo must face an impossible choice:<br>Expose the truth and lose everything...<br>or help V build a world where human governance dies quietly-and the noose tightens around everyone.</p><p>A razor-sharp paranoid techno-thriller perfect for fans of Harlan Coben Mr. Robot and Dark Web conspiracy fiction.</p>