Eli Voss is a YouTube engineer with a camera, a converted gas station, and a fuel made from plastic waste. It's called *Plastine*. It works. And it shouldn't.
On the day of his public demo, strangers start leaving the same comment: Nice knowing you.
A mechanic's warning. A deleted Reddit thread. A visit from a man with a badge and an offer he can't refuse. Eli discovers he's not the first to try-and that there's a very long list of inventors who vanished right before their breakthroughs went public.
With the help of a whistleblower, a veteran reporter, and a network of people who believe information wants to be free, Eli goes on the run to expose a system that doesn't just suppress inventions-it erases inventors.
Knowledge can't be destroyed. But people can.