They thought the static was random. They were wrong.
When retired broadcast engineer Art Brennan learns that his former colleague Silas Crowe has taken his own life, something doesn’t add up. The suicide note is too clean. The obituary too fast. And the bursts of static breaking across every radio in the city? They sound almost… intentional.
Digging through Silas’s old tapes, Art uncovers fragments of a hidden signal woven through civilian frequencies — a network that’s been recording human thought patterns for decades. It began as Cold War paranoia. It became the blueprint for modern innovation.
The world’s progress wasn’t built on genius — it was built on echoes of stolen thoughts.
As Art follows the trail through obsolete transmitters, abandoned labs, and encrypted archives, the deeper truth begins to hum behind the noise — a truth that could collapse the entire information age.
The static isn’t silence. It’s someone — or something — listening back.