The Glitch - Book I: Ghostwalker Novel Paperback – March 23, 2026

They wanted a weapon. They got a glitch.Jake Palmer is seventeen years old when a man in a grey suit walks into his jail cell and offers him a contract. Ten years of service in exchange for his grandmother's citizenship, his best friend's freedom, and the permanent erasure of his record.The service: becoming a Ghostwalker—an assassin for a shadowy organization that calls itself "the machine."The catch: Jake's mother signed the same contract in 1989. When she tried to leave, the machine killed her. Vaughn, the man who recruited her, sat in a cold room while her mother identified her body.Now Jake must undergo neural conditioning designed to suppress every impulse that makes him human. His trainer, Keller, tells him that emotion is a vulnerability. The iteration protocol is the cure. But Jake carries one thing the machine cannot touch: a medicine pouch his great-grandmother made for his mother, passed down through generations of women who sang their children through genocide and displacement.His first deployment should be simple: terminate Aleksandar Petrović, the man who flagged his mother's file. But Petrović has a fourteen-year-old daughter who makes Jake coffee, asks about Amsterdam, and believes her father will take her there someday.She asks him a question that will echo across decades, through a Hamburg alley and a frozen watchtower in Maine, through the lives of every ghost who finds their way out of the dark:"What about you? What will happen to you?"The Glitch is a literary thriller about memory and erasure, about what survives when everything is taken, and about the stubborn persistence of humanity in those who refuse to become only weapons. For readers of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Never Let Me Go, and Station Eleven, it asks: When the machine has consumed everything you are, what's left to fight with?What's left is the glitch. Read more