The Unlived

Zach Hayes grew up with nothing, watched his mother die because they couldn't afford better care, and decided the world owed him. Brilliant, relentless, and willing to cross any line that needed crossing, he built a quantum encryption empire from the ground up and told himself the compromises along the way were just the price of survival.

Then someone hacked his unbreakable encryption. And what they left behind wasn't a ransom note. It was a geometric figure hidden deep inside his own DNA, a...