A logistics engineer outsmarts a fraudulent corporate freeze using system data to claim his cargo.
CHAPTER 1: THE LOGISTICS OF ISOLATION The steel handle of the flatbed cart was cold, transferring a dull, metallic chill through the fabric of Marcus Brody’s canvas jacket. He liked the cold. It was a tangible metric—predictable, consistent, and completely indifferent to human error. Behind him, the interior of Martinsburg Provisions hummed with the high-register…