Barry Redhead: Charley - The Evidence Lies, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Title: Charley: The Evidence Lies (or Charley) The algorithm claims she killed a man. But Sarah Douglas ceased to exist eleven years ago. In the spring of 2027, Charley and her partner Martin live in quiet, unarmed seclusion along the stormy coast of Nova Scotia, determined to bury the ghosts of their operational past. But their silence shatters when an old channel sparks to life with an audio file of a dead man: "Sorry about this." Simultaneously in Manhattan, financier Anthony Warren is found stabbed to death inside his locked penthouse. Before the medical examiner has even determined the body's core temperature, ORISON - the federal government's flagship autonomous evidence platform - locks onto a suspect with 94.8% mathematical certainty: Sarah Douglas. Every transit camera, hotel key, credit card transaction, and mobile cell tower confirms she was there. Except Sarah Douglas was an alias Charley discarded in 2016 after killing a hitman in self-defence. When a coordinated arson attack burns their Canadian sanctuary to the ground, Charley is forced back onto the rain-slicked asphalt of New York. She quickly uncovers an insidious reality: ORISON does not rely on crude deepfakes. Instead, its architect, Kenneth O'Hara, manufactures guilt through a crowdsourced gig-economy - paying hundreds of innocent civilians to alter clocks, carry bags, and stage forensic breadcrumbs. Each task is legal on its own; combined, they form an unassailable digital lie. Tracked by a federal task force led by Special Agent Elena Ruiz and hunted by an operative trained on her own combat matrices, Charley must dismantle a predictive model that has already calculated her every move. To beat a machine that turns reasonable doubt into conviction, she cannot simply outshoot the opposition - she must break the algorithm by refusing to become the killer it expects.