Power survived exposure. Now it wants to survive memory. After the collapse of the Black Warrant system, governments promise reform, oversight, and restraint. But when deniable violence becomes too visible to sustain, authority doesn't disappear-it evolves. This time, it doesn't arrive with warrants, contracts, or assassins. It arrives with predictions. As a new framework quietly spreads across borders-one that claims to prevent harm before it happens-people begin to feel the consequences without ever being accused of anything. Travel delays. Financial freezes. Silent restrictions. No charges. No explanations. No appeals. Ethan Cole, the man who forced the last system into daylight, recognizes the pattern immediately. The machinery has moved earlier in time. Decisions are now made by models instead of people, by certainty instead of judgment. Violence no longer looks like violence-it looks like math. As courts, insurers, and oversight bodies struggle to confront a system that insists it never decides, Ethan races to expose the most dangerous idea of all: that the future can be enforced without accountability. But slowing a system built on prediction comes at a cost-and someone will pay it. Dark, relentless, and disturbingly plausible, Shadow Authority is a high-stakes political thriller about surveillance, algorithms, and the quiet erosion of freedom. It explores a chilling question at the heart of modern power: What happens when you are punished not for what you've done-but for what a system thinks you might become? Book Two of the Black Warrant Series Where certainty becomes control-and doubt becomes the last act of resistance.