The Crackdown
The first director of the New Atlanta Deviant Enforcement Division (NADED) has been assassinated, the killer vanishing into the shadows. Vowing all deviants must be removed from the city, the new director unleashes a sweeping surveillance approach, ignoring the law to make good on his promise to the city. As New Atlanta becomes the stage for a high-stakes game of power players, no one will escape the fallout.
The Crackdown is a novelette and novella series told from three perspectives.
- Nikolay is a teenager who hates his parents for forcing him to undergo the Protocol, not to mention grounding him any time he doesn't get his schoolwork done. He'll do anything to escape, even if it puts him on the wrong side of the law. Fortunately for him, those in the shadows are more than happy to oblige...for a cost.
- Rachel & April are seasoned deviant operators with years of successful jobs behind them. But doing the dirty work for someone else gets old, and when the seeds of doubt get sown they grow into a need to chart their own course. Then all hell breaks loose.
- Stephen Tesoro is a capable analyst for NADED, finding the deviant needles in the haystack of public data. His performance lands him a promotion, directly reporting to the NADED Director. Yet one look at the illegal tools before him and he knows he has to stop it. Can he trust anyone to help him expose the plot before too much damage is done?