Zero Day
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Last published Sat, Jul 12, 2025
Cohen Carter is a brilliant yet broke software engineering student at UPenn, scraping by in the bustling streets of Philadelphia. Armed with his unmatched coding skills and desperate to escape his mounting debts, Cohen creates a groundbreaking software capable of doing the unthinkable-diverting millions from the Pentagon's accounts straight into his own.
But his genius move quickly spirals into a nightmare. The audacious hack sets off alarms at the highest levels of national security, launching a relentless FBI manhunt. As Cohen navigates a web of betrayal, moral dilemmas, and high-tech cat-and-mouse games, he must decide how far he's willing to go to stay ahead of the law-and whether his brilliance will be his salvation or his undoing.
Caught between his genius and his growing guilt, Cohen races against time in a world where every line of code could mean life or imprisonment.
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