System Collapse

David's entire life was built on the certainty of numbers, the immutable constants that governed global finance from his perch 40 stories above Manhattan. But that illusion shatters in an instant. It begins not with a bang, but with an eerie digital silence. The global financial indices freeze, flicker, and then vanish. The world economy isn't crashing; it's being meticulously erased. Within hours, secure banking networks evaporate, followed by the global communication grid—every system the elite relied upon simply blinks out of existence. Trapped in his office as sirens scream a constant soundtrack of chaos in the streets below, David can only watch the irreversible cascade failure. The government lines are dead; his phone is a useless brick. A panicked junior analyst confirms the nightmare: backup servers wiped clean, a century of data gone. The official word is terror, but David knows better. A final act of defiance from the architects of the collapse—likely the notorious Kael's team—flashes across his primary monitor: TRUTH. COMMUNITY. FREEDOM. Then, nothing but a dead gray screen. As his building shakes from the impact of rioters far below, David must confront the bitter truth: the system he dedicated his life to was always a fragile lie. The promises of stability were a deception. The world hadn't ended with a bang or a whimper; it ended with a delete key. SYSTEM COLLAPSE is a gripping, high-stakes techno-thriller that plunges humanity into the immediate aftermath of a data apocalypse. It's a compelling exploration of survival, societal breakdown, and the terrifying new reality that begins when all the rules—and all the data—disappear. This novel is the second book in The Entangled States series.