"I choose violence.
Over injustice."

Five words. That's all he said at trial. The courtroom went silent. The internet went nuclear.

Arjun Rao - "Arrow" to the people who forgot his real name - was nobody. A mid-level coder in Ohio. Polo shirts. Cubicle life.

Then he read one article about one billionaire and one plea deal that gave a child trafficker thirteen months in county jail.

He didn't tweet. He didn't march. He spent ten years building a database of every name, every flight, every shell company, every girl who was taken and every powerful man who took her. He called it the Constellation.

Then he started deleting nodes.

Nine kills. Six countries. A different girl's name left beside each body. Names no one recognized - until now.

There is a twist. It will change what you think this book is about. We won't tell you here.

For readers of Stieg Larsson, Dennis Lehane, and anyone who's looked at the news and thought: the system isn't broken - it's working exactly as designed.

"I choose violence.
Over injustice."