The Salzburg Executioner

He wrote algorithms designed to optimize attention and engagement - until his life's work led to unthinkable tragedy.

James Wohlmuth helped design the architecture of online influence that shapes what billions mistake for connection. When his wife takes her own life - a casualty of the attention economy he helped create - he retreats to Salzburg to grieve and to confront the power he once unleashed. There, among the archives and shadows of the old city, he discovers the centuries-old diary o...