Political Peril

Ben Walker is a federal IT analyst who has spent twelve years untangling the government's knotted messes-the kind most people are paid to ignore. Before that, he honed his instincts at the NSA, where secrecy was doctrine and curiosity could be career-ending. Now, working late nights in a half-lit cubicle at the Department of Commerce, Ben follows data trails the way a hunter tracks fresh prints, reading patterns in audit logs that others dismiss as routine noise. When he uncovers a network of sanitized travel records, phantom itineraries, and deleted metadata fragments tied to Jeffrey Epstein's sphere of influence, Ben faces a choice that will define him: stay silent and safe, or risk everything to expose a conspiracy woven into the highest levels of power. Driven not by ambition but by an unshakable belief that silence is complicity, he steps across a line from which there is no return. Ben's motives are simple and profound-he cannot unsee what he has found, and he refuses to let fear become his legacy. Armed with encrypted drives, anonymous contacts, and a lifetime of reading what institutions try to hide, he becomes the reluctant catalyst for a reckoning that will shake Washington, challenge international alliances, and force America to confront the cost of looking away.