Cyber-thrillers and a techno-thriller.
First nonfiction on the way.

By day, Zeek is exactly who Omnivane thinks he is: a mid-level detection engineer who closes his tickets, turns down promotions, and is out the door at 5:30.

By night, he is BatchMan.

When ransomware takes down his hometown's 911 dispatch and ambulances start stacking up outside his sister's ER, Zeek stops pretending he doesn't know how to fight back. No movie magic. Just a forgotten beacon, a sloppy affiliate panel, and decryption keys the crew never expected anyone to take.

One crew falls. Then another. But while the encryptors keep changing, the way in never does: clean credentials, unrotated tokens, footholds too good to have been phished. Someone is selling access, and every crew is buying.

Hunting the seller means more nights in the dark and more risk by day, at a company that logs every query for a year, watched by an Insider Risk team whose detections he helped design. An FBI agent has opened a file on BatchMan. A Red Team rival thinks the vigilante is closer than anyone suspects. And Zeek's own pride keeps signing his work.

Every breach starts with initial access. So could his downfall.

By day, Zeek is an ordinary engineer at Omnivane. By night, he's BatchMan, a hacker who took down a ransomware gang and walked away.

Or so he thought.

Now a deep freeze is coming to Texas, and Zeek discovers his past has been turned against him. Hidden inside small-town water plants and rural hospitals is a deadly trap. It doesn't need anyone to press a button. If it stops hearing from its owner, it goes off.

And someone has made sure the evidence points straight at him.

With the FBI closing in and the ice coming, Zeek faces an impossible choice. He can expose the truth and reveal who he really is, or stay silent and risk innocent lives.

But the deeper he digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes.

Someone built a dead man's switch.

And they made sure Zeek would be the one holding it.

For eight months, Zeek has been living an ordinary life. Nobody knows he was once BatchMan.

Then his manager disappears. Her car is gone. Her phone is off.

That same week, a small-town water plant fails overnight, with no record that it was ever a target.

A message reaches BatchMan: The heartbeat stops in 72 hours.

Last winter's deadly trap was never fully cleared. Pieces of it are still hidden in small towns, kept dormant by a signal. When that signal stops, they wake up.

But Zeek can't warn anyone without revealing how he knows.

An FBI agent is asking questions. A coworker has reopened his investigation into BatchMan. And his sister has noticed that he always knows what's happening before the news does.

Someone wants BatchMan exposed.

Save his secret—or save the people who never knew they were in danger.

The explosive conclusion to The BatchMan Files trilogy.