"Claire had a choice to make, sever the connection and trigger a feedback cascade that could kill every person wired into the network. Or let it run. And watch the signal propagate to the next relay point. Then every mountain town within broadcast range. She was a surgeon. She knew how to cut. She also knew that sometimes the cut kills the patient. She reached for the wire cutter. The glass man protocol, available now. The medical thriller that asks, what if the disease was never an accident?"