Black Ledger

The Dark Protocols Book 2

By: Benjamin Wilson

Narrated by: Cody Hinman

The world runs on trust. What happens when trust is hacked?

Nathan Bishop spent his career safeguarding the world’s financial systems—until the day they turned against him. When a shadow network hijacks banking infrastructure and weaponizes every fix he ever designed, Nathan becomes the most wanted fugitive alive… and the only man who might still stop economic Armageddon.

With global currencies manipulated, digital payments failing, and society teetering on the edge, Bishop goes underground as entire cities revert to cash, barter, and analog survival. But as market collapse gives way to chaos, a new breed of adversaries emerges—operatives who don’t just break the system, but hijack the very meaning of legitimacy, trust, and truth.

Racing through sabotage, betrayal, and impossible choices, Bishop must outsmart both his former mentors and a relentless AI adversary whose only purpose is to learn—and weaponize—human weakness. Alongside a team of unlikely allies, he crafts a new kind of resistance: trust built not on code, but on people. Yet even victory comes with a warning: somewhere in the dark, sleeper threats wait…and the real war is about to begin.

Black Ledger is a pulse-pounding, technically authentic thriller about the fragility of civilization, the power of human ingenuity, and the next front in the battle for our future.

©2025 Benjamin Ian Wilson (P)2025 Benjamin Ian Wilson