Subtracted

A man running from his past. An assassin with a final target. A soldier awakened to the truth.When Joel Jacobs volunteered to enter deep sleep, he thought he'd wake in a brighter world. Instead, decades have passed, and the life he knew has been stripped from him. The Capital is spotless, efficient, and merciless, built on surveillance, and obedience. Joel, a relic from the past soon becomes a problem to be contained.Desperate to escape the new regime that now controls his life, Joel clings to one question: will he ever see his daughter again? But the deeper he's embedded into the new world order, he realises his past is closely tied to the regime's rise.When an underground resistance network offers him a way to fight back, they reveal that something buried in Joel's history could bring the system down from the inside. To reach it, Joel must face the choices he ran away from in his past life, and risk everything he holds close to expose the truth.Subtracted is a chilling dystopian thriller about regret, survival, and the dangerous cost of second chances.