In the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley, communication is everything-and a single message can be a death warrant.Maya Lin is a developer who knows that in tech, nothing is ever truly deleted. When her colleague Benji turns up dead, the official story doesn't add up. Digging through the digital breadcrumbs of Nexus, a global tech giant, Maya uncovers "The Manila Bridge" a conspiracy buried deep within the company's encrypted communication channels. Now, she's a target of the very "open-source culture" she once believed in. With the police closing in and a corporate hit squad on her heels, Maya must team up with Detective Miller to stage a desperate break-in at Nexus headquarters. But the 60-story glass fortress is on total lockdown, and the evidence is being scrubbed in real-time. To expose the truth, Maya will have to navigate a vertical tomb of biometric locks, legacy hardware, and a "Zero-Day" patch designed to kill. In a world where people are treated like software components, Maya is about to prove that some bugs can't be fixed.