Cameron Winter is an interesting individual。 An English professor and an ex assassin for the US government， he’s disturbed by the recent suicide of an ex student who had been hounded out of campus after a supposed non consensual liaison。 Shortly before the suicide， he texts Winter “help me”， but then kills himself anyway。 Winter’s search for answers， aided by his “strange habit of mind”， in which he can synthesize solutions form disparate pieces of information， leads him to Gerald Byrne， founder Cameron Winter is an interesting individual。 An English professor and an ex assassin for the US government， he’s disturbed by the recent suicide of an ex student who had been hounded out of campus after a supposed non consensual liaison。 Shortly before the suicide， he texts Winter “help me”， but then kills himself anyway。 Winter’s search for answers， aided by his “strange habit of mind”， in which he can synthesize solutions form disparate pieces of information， leads him to Gerald Byrne， founder of a huge social media platform。 How he comes to unearth what happened is only one part the novel。 We also learn a great deal about Winter’s background while the narrative unfolds， and it’s well integrated into the novel。This is the second Cameron Winter book， and found that reading the first book was not necessary to my immense enjoyment of this book。Trigger warning。 Those readers who are happy with the current rigid left wing orthodoxies on college campuses， and with tech censorship， will undoubtedly be offended by the book。 Many thanks to Mysterious Press and to Netgalley for providing an ARC of the book。 。。。more