Accidental God

Rick Anderson tracks freight for a living. He is careful, exact and invisible, until a fall in a wet stairwell leaves him with migraines, missing words, a weak left hand and a link to a rehab trial in Beijing. The implant behind his ear fixes his hand. It also opens every cargo manifest, payment rail and compliance system in Chicago to him, like doors left on the latch. Rick could be anything. He chooses to be boring. Every small reach leaves a mark on someone else's thermometer, and every big one costs his body: migraine, nosebleed, seizure. Run the budget to zero and someone else takes the wheel. Then a compliance review lands on his desk. A careful young analyst named Mara starts publishing about ghosts in logistics software. And Cindy Chen, the colleague who brings him coffee with too much sugar, starts keeping a private list. Rick thinks he has found a power. The people who built it think they have found a candidate. He wasn't hunted. He was farmed. Accidental God is a techno-thriller about a gift nobody else can see, and the price of refusing to use it. This audiobook is read by a digital voice.