At 2:41 AM, senior 911 operator Maya Cross takes a call that doesn't match any emergency she has ever handled. The man on the line is calm, precise, and describing something that cannot be real: a coordinated attack on Chicago's water supply, power grid, and emergency dispatch system set to trigger within twenty-four hours.
Within hours, Maya's trace logs are frozen, her apartment is breached, and a federal agent arrives who knows details he shouldn't. The colleagues she trusts are being watched. The system she has spent her career protecting may be the system trying to silence her.
With the clock running and no one she can fully trust, Maya must decide how far she is willing to go — and how much she is willing to lose to make sure someone answers when the city calls.
Dead Air is a taut, precise thriller about one woman who refuses to go quiet, in a world that is counting on her to do exactly that.