The Amalfi Deletion

A missing tech founder. A yacht full of secrets. A silent cover-up.

A missing tech visionary. A retreat at sea. A truth designed to be forgotten.

When Matteo Bianchi—Europe’s rising tech star—vanishes from a luxury yacht off the Amalfi Coast, the headlines are brief. Accidental drowning. No foul play. No body recovered.

But his sister doesn’t believe it. And neither does Julian Vale.

Summoned by a cryptic message and a hard drive full of encrypted files, Vale—an ex-intelligence investigator living in self-imposed quiet—steps back into a world of curated silences and institutional forgetting. What begins as a private disappearance unravels into something far deeper: a retreat that was never just a party, a project that was never just philanthropic, and a system built to erase its own trail.

From coastal marinas and polished conference rooms to silent SIM cards and corrupted audio logs, The Amalfi Deletion is a suspenseful and elegant thriller about memory, disappearance, and the cost of asking the wrong questions in the right circles.

He didn’t drown. He was deleted.