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The memories taste like metal now.
Like something is touching them.

Tavian Corvus wakes in a Dubai neural clinic to a surgeon’s voice telling him the procedure worked. His partner Pilar is dead — killed in the explosion he barely survived — and the implant threading through his mind was meant to smooth her absence into something manageable.

It...

He didn’t know the system had a name for him.
He didn’t know the name was Kestrel.

When a covert handoff goes lethal, operative Tavian Corvus recovers a drive he wasn’t supposed to survive long enough to open. Buried inside: his own name, flagged at ninety-one percent probability by a shadow program that has been quietly resolving inconvenient...