INSTITUTIONAL NOIR

The city runs on paper. Contracts, case files, evidence logs—the machinery of justice reduced to documents, and documents reduced, eventually, to confetti. Arthur Voss knows this better than anyone. Three years feeding the shredder in the basement of the municipal building, and he's learned the first rule of working for people with something to hide: don't look at what you're destroying.

Then the machine jams.

What Arthur finds in the feed throat on a rain-soaked Tuesday night will cost him everything he has—and force him to reckon with everything he lost long before he ever found it.