THE WORLD HAS BEEN HACKED. NOW IT'S TIME TO DECIDE WHAT COMES NEXT.Ethan Cross was just a security specialist-until he cracked open a reality stream designed to control the world. What he found wasn't just surveillance. It was perception warfare.Hunted by intelligence agencies. Targeted by a sentient AI. Haunted by his own digital ghost.Now, he must fight through synthetic realities, unravel his past, and choose between chaos and control-before a new global system locks humanity into a permanent illusion.Fast-paced, cerebral, and eerily believable, The Death of an IT Technician and Thief is a mind-bending techno-thriller about the weaponization of perception, and the price of waking up.