A government Algorithm scores every citizen's loyalty. What you read, who you talk to, and where you go all feed the number. Stay above the threshold, and life continues. Drop below it, and a team shows up before dawn. Three days later, you walk out empty. Compliant. Calibrated. No longer a problem. Derrick Grimetti has been on the enforcement side for twelve years. Liquidation Processing. He clears the apartments of people who stopped being people the moment their scores bottomed out. It's clean work if you don't look at the photographs. He looked. A list of names hidden in a dead teacher's evidence box. His brother's name is seventh on the page. One stolen document. One partner who notices everything, and a ticking clock, twelve days before the Algorithm flags Lawrence Grimetti for acquisition and erases everything. Confidence Score is dystopian fiction that hits close to the bone, a story about algorithmic control, the criminalization of knowledge, and two people inside the machine who decide the cost of compliance is higher than the cost of treason. This is the kind of book the Ministry would ban.
