PROJECT: SH@D0WS

Nine months after exposing a major British surveillance scandal, Zach Reeves and his team are hiding in The Hague, building a shadow network across seven countries. Lily spots patterns early, Jane has sharp survival instincts, and Steve is the son of a Hungarian intelligence officer.

Then three cities fall ill on the same day, and emergency digital identity systems switch on across Europe. They were staged months earlier, and they are powered by widely used AI tools.

Zach decodes messages from his absent father and uncovers a design to govern, and replace, human decision-making. At its centre is a hidden door that can only be opened from inside the system, the cost of opening it, and a designer who believes she is in control.