When a routine errand drags him into a web of corrupted data, buried identities, and people who should have stayed dead, Michael is forced to confront a truth the city profits from hiding: memory is currency, and the past always comes to collect.
Every favor carries a price. Every secret is for sale. And in a world where corporations own history itself, even grief can be monetized.
Debt Among the Dead is a gritty cyberpunk noir thriller about memory, identity, and survival in a broken future. Blending rain-soaked atmosphere with emotional, character-driven storytelling, it follows a man trying to stay human in a system designed to strip that away.
This is a story about what it costs to remember — and what it costs even more to forget.
Michael Young writes gritty science fiction and cyberpunk noir focused on memory, identity, and survival in broken futures. His work blends atmospheric world-building with character-driven storytelling, exploring how people remain human inside systems designed to erase them.His stories often center on overlooked lives in decaying cities, where technology, trauma, and corporate power collide. Debt Among the Dead is his debut novel.