New York, 2055. One wounded cop. One dangerous prisoner. One lawless zone that wants them dead.

NYPD Officer Alice Yu is used to hunting wanted criminals through the broken streets of future New York. She is a former Marine, a damaged survivor, and one of the few cops still willing to work a city where automation has gutted the economy and violence owns the streets.

Alice has also sworn never to take another life.

That promise shatters when a ruthless gang shoots her police Hopper out of the sky.

Crash-landed in a ruined Brooklyn district, Alice, her partner Mike, and their high-value prisoner are injured, exposed, and hunted by heavily armed killers. Backup is distant. The streets are hostile. Every route out is closing.

To save her partner and keep the prisoner alive, Alice must choose between the badge she still believes in and the violence she has spent years trying to bury.

In future New York, survival is not justice.

And loyalty may cost Alice Yu everything.

Pattern_Spec is a gritty cyberpunk police thriller and the introductory Alice Yu novella, set in a dystopian 2055 New York of flying police cars, lawless zones, artificial intelligence, and brutal street-level survival.