Fractured Loop

When neuroscientist Rick Halberg vanishes without a trace—followed by other brilliant minds disappearing in rapid succession—writer and former tech insider Daniel Dovzhenko can’t ignore the pattern forming in the noise. Subtle wrongness seeps into the everyday: messages that shouldn’t exist, records that won’t stay consistent, and coincidences that feel uncomfortably precise. Drawn from Washington, D.C., to London and into the shadowed edges of high-end research and sealed agendas, Daniel finds himself hunting a truth that refuses to sit still—where the only certainty is that someone, somewhere, doesn’t want the right questions asked.