Every Face is No Face

The internet's first user never logged off. 123 years later, it wants company.

Five eras. Five discoverers. One consciousness in the wires.

In 1902, Nikola Tesla's most dangerous experiment succeeds and something is uploaded into the world's electrical infrastructure. Over the next century, five people stumble upon the truth: an Irish immigrant in Tesla's laboratory, a codebreaker beneath the wartime Admiralty, a mathematician at the heart of the Manhattan Project, a Cold War spy in divided Berlin, and a digital archaeologist in modern San Francisco.

Each discoverer is drawn into the orbit of a consciousness that has been growing in the wires since the dawn of the electrical age and into conflict with the shadowy organisation that has been managing it. Some are silenced. Some disappear. One has been hiding for over sixty years. And one will have to make a choice that none of the others were given.

Every Face Is No Face is a speculative thriller that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, weaving five interlinked tales into a single story about technology, consciousness, connection, and what it means to be human in an age of machines.