The Long Decode – Paperback

Four winters after the Corvane Pass, the names are still falling out of the world.

Trish Haddad has built a careful life as a clerk in Saint-Aurle, with an old dog, a one-eyed cat, and one rule: do not look for the man who walked into a police office to buy her an hour. Then 412 contract workers come down the gangway at Pier 14 with their names replaced by numbers, and one of them lifts his chin like a man she once loved.

Socca has signed his name to many things he regrets. Now the financier who profited from every one of them wants him to sign again. A senior clerk is found dead with his hat folded on his chest. A vault in the northern woods holds nine thousand names. And an old radio, tuned between two stations, is offering both of them a glimpse of a future where no one is left to read them.

Some locks open with a key. This one takes two voices and a room full of witnesses