No Mercy: This Is What Power Becomes

Every system promises safety. Every system conceals who must suffer to provide it.

Atlanta has become the safest major city in America-or so Mayor Langston R. Steele wants the world to believe.

Behind the city's falling crime rates and carefully managed public image operates GhostGrid, an invisible intelligence network capable of predicting unrest, manipulating public perception, and deciding which citizens represent a threat. Housing records, medical debt, employment files, surveillance came...