JUDAS (BREAKING THE DEVIL'S HALO)

Chimdike Charles Action

JUDAS: THE DEVIL BREAKING THE DEVIL'S HALOJudas Vale makes a living exposing lies.At twenty-four, he's already built a reputation as an investigative journalist who doesn't know when to stop. Corrupt officials, stolen money, buried scandals—Judas has chased them all.But some stories don't want to be found.When a routine investigation into a corrupt city contractor leads Judas and his best friend Kai to Apex Dynamics, they discover something buried beneath the corporation's spotless public image.A file.LAZARUS.At first, it looks like another corporate secret.Then they notice the names.People listed as employees who don't exist. Missing people disguised as voluntary transfers. Medical records that shouldn't exist. Identities that seem to vanish from the system as if they were never there.Judas knows he's found something big.He doesn't realize Apex already knows he's looking.Within hours of their breach, the evidence begins disappearing.Then Judas and Kai are framed.Their homes are searched. Their accounts are frozen. Their names are dragged across the news. Suddenly, the journalist who spent his career exposing criminals is being hunted as one.With nowhere left to turn, Judas disappears into the shadows.That's when he finds Sherlock.A private investigator with an alias, a dangerous past, and his own reason for hunting Apex. Sherlock has spent years searching for a family member who disappeared after crossing paths with the corporation.He doesn't trust Judas.Judas doesn't trust him.But they need each other.Together, they build a team of outsiders: an ambitious reporter, a medical student, a former Apex security officer, and a reckless drone specialist. Each brings a skill. Each carries a secret.And every secret brings them closer to Lazarus.Because Apex isn't simply hiding corruption.They're hiding what Lazarus can do.It can change memories.Erase identities.Turn people into strangers to the ones who love them.Then someone close to Judas is processed.The person looks straight at him...and doesn't remember his name.Now the investigation is personal.As the team closes in on Apex, betrayal tears them apart, Kane—the corporation's ruthless security chief—begins hunting them, and the truth about Sherlock's missing family member finally surfaces.But the deeper Judas goes, the more terrifying the truth becomes.Lazarus isn't an experiment that went wrong.It was built for a reason.And Apex will destroy anyone who gets close enough to discover what that reason is.To expose the corporation, Judas will have to enter the very facility where Lazarus was created.He knows they may not all walk out.He goes anyway.Because Judas has spent his entire life believing that the truth is worth the cost.Now he has to decide how much that cost is allowed to be.His career.His friends.The people he loves.Or himself.The world thinks Judas is chasing a story.Apex knows better.He's coming for the truth.And the truth is coming for him.

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