{"product_id":"the-blood-ledger-9798281945608","title":"The Blood Ledger","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Philip Stengel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Technological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA detective finds a list of names. Then the names start dying.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetective Jonah Raines has seen corruption up close, but this is different. A brutal murder leads him to a sealed network that keeps the city balanced through quiet violence, payoffs, and disappearances. At the center is a ledger no one admits exists, a living account of who gets protected, who gets ruined, and who gets erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Jonah pushes deeper, he is forced into unstable alliances: Elena Morales, a reporter who knows the city's secrets have owners, and Cipher, a ghost in the system with access to files that should not exist. Even Jonah's own partner, Sarah Lin, is pulled into the gravity of the ledger, where loyalty is a currency and every choice creates a debt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe closer Jonah gets to the truth, the more the city corrects the problem.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurveillance tightens. Witnesses vanish. Doors that used to open do not anymore. And the people behind the ledger, including Marcus Vale and the enforcer Victor Kane, do not negotiate. They audit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Blood Ledger\u003c\/b\u003e is a fast, noir-leaning conspiracy thriller about power, complicity, and what happens when the thing keeping a city \"safe\" is the same thing killing it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595004067991,"sku":"9798281945608","price":1368.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798281945608.webp?v=1774988020","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-blood-ledger-9798281945608","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}