In a world built on perfect order, one man is the glitch.

Johnathan Abernathy is the ideal CIA analyst — methodical, emotionless, entirely predictable. His life runs like a machine: routines, data, control. Then a scan of his own genetic code reveals something impossible — the XF-7 marker. He is not entirely human.

What starts as a routine investigation into a shadowy operative unravels into a nightmare of erased records and buried memories. A classified program called Project Chimera has been running for decades, fusing alien biology with human hosts. Johnathan isn’t just tracking the experiment. He is the experiment.

Now hunted by the same agency that built him, Johnathan uncovers a terrifying truth: extraterrestrial entities known as the Progenitors are preparing to impose absolute galactic order — a sterile utopia that would erase emotion, individuality, and everything that makes life worth living. But something inside him is waking up. Something unpredictable. Something dangerously human.

A gripping science fiction thriller about identity, rebellion, and the explosive power of imperfection in a universe demanding perfection. As Johnathan transforms from cold observer to unlikely revolutionary, he must decide what it truly means to be alive — before the Progenitors erase the question forever.

For fans of The Three-Body Problem, Dark Matter, and Neuromancer.