Ghost in the System
Stop looking." The note is under his keyboard on his third day at the job. No signature. No explanation. Just two words and the particular kind of cold that comes with....
Stop looking." The note is under his keyboard on his third day at the job. No signature. No explanation. Just two words and the particular kind of cold that comes with realizing someone in this building already knows who you really are. Jaxon Rowan is not supposed to be here. He used a dead man's credentials to get hired at Nexara Systems because forty seven rejection emails will do something to a person, and he needed a job, and he figured he could sort out the details later. What he did not figure on was that Bertram Cole, the man whose name he borrowed, died eight months ago. And that somebody in this building knew Bertram personally. And that the note under his keyboard means they are watching him right now. He should run. He knows he should run. He stays. Because three years ago someone used the same system that just sent him that note to put him in prison for a crime he did not commit. And he is starting to think those two things might be connected. What Jaxon does not know yet is that his name was on a list before he ever sent that application. That the woman who smiled at him in the all-hands meeting has known who he is since before he walked through the door. That the girlfriend who disappeared while he was in prison is working three floors above him and is too scared to speak. That his mother has a code word she has been waiting twenty five years to explain. And that the dead man whose name he borrowed left a weapon buried inside Nexara's servers, waiting for exactly the kind of person Jaxon turns out to be. Ghost in the System is a 400-episode serial thriller about a man who went looking for a job and found the truth instead. It will cost him everything. He pays anyway.
Disclaimer: This show may contain expletives, strong language, and mature content for adult listeners, including sexually explicit content and themes of violence. This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real persons, businesses, places or events is coincidental. This show is not intended to offend or defame any individual, entity, caste, community, race, religion or to denigrate any institution or person, living or dead. Listener's discretion is advised.
