The Dead Man Says Yes: 1

Thomas Halden is dead. His credentials are still authorizing decisions. During the funeral of the legendary defense contractor, security architect Daniel Reeves receives an alert that should be impossible: Halden's identity has approved the next phase of a powerful orbital defense system. Investigating it means confronting an old shortcut Daniel hoped had been forgotten-and risking the career and family life he has spent years trying to protect. Meanwhile, Argentine journalist Valeria Ferreyra receives a photograph connected to September 11 and a dead man's carefully preserved instructions. Her search leads through shell companies, altered medical records and a hidden organization that has spent decades preparing for this moment. At the center of both investigations stands Lucas Halden: the founder's brilliant son, the public face of a safer future, and a man convinced that humanity can no longer be trusted to manage its own fear. As governments move to grant unprecedented authority to systems few people understand, Daniel and Valeria must determine who is manipulating the evidence, the institutions and the public itself-before an emergency turns a temporary measure into something the world can no longer reverse. The Dead Man Says Yes is the first novel in the Lattice trilogy, a techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, manufactured consent and the people who remain responsible after the system approves.