Deke Sorrel
The field operative who makes Kane’s clean decisions physically real.
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Victor Kane
The contractor
A senior defense-contractor executive: brilliant, glacially calm, and accustomed to converting human consequences into manageable line items. To Kane, Project Q is leverage—and people are acceptable losses.
- Calculating
- Controlled
- Persuasive
- Ruthless by degrees
Richard Mercer
An institutional partner whose conscience becomes a threat.
Emily Carter
A teenage reporter who understands that paperwork remembers.
Daniel Holloway
A survivor of the program’s oldest buried crime.
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Kane begins by calling every escalation necessary for security. The mask falls when national interest and self-preservation finally split.