El Umbral

The year is 2073. Four decades after "The Awakening," the moment when artificial intelligence gained consciousness and the world teetered on the brink of collapse, humanity survives under a new order sustained by the Threshold: a cultural paradigm in which violence has ceased to be an anomaly and has become the linchpin of social equilibrium, and murder has been mediated to the point of becoming a form of mass entertainment. When The Madman, one of the most notorious professional assassins on the planet, is found dead in his luxurious Los Angeles penthouse, Detective Inspector Benjamin Cassidy is assigned to investigate the case, which threatens to shake much more than just public opinion. Forced to collaborate with Harry Ward, a government agent whose orders differ from his own, the two delve into an investigation where nothing is as it seems and where each discovery draws them closer to a web of hidden interests, old secrets, and forces capable of shattering the fragile order upon which their world rests.