The Blind Bystander

In the year 2055, mass murders are a global plague. For decades, society watched the number of killing events increase from monthly to daily to hourly. The governments of the world have exhausted all their technologies, strategies, and advanced AI capabilities to reduce the killings, but nothing has been effective. Public gatherings are almost nonexistent. Fear of being killed drives people to stay home and use their virtual iPatch to attend sporting events, churches, schools, parties, and more. In a last-ditch effort, the North American Security Department takes on a radically different approach. They bring in Sara Vogel, an astronaut thought to have been killed in space long ago but mysteriously returns from a doomed 23-year spaceflight. Oddly, Sara has not aged while in space. And oddly, she possesses a mysterious paranormal intuition on how to end the killings. As mass murders continue to rise, there is one killer who stands out from the others, scheming to massacre thousands. But Sara knows that battling only one super-tech murderer won't stop the global bloodshed. With the help of her three uniquely anomalous friends, she has a plan to stop all mass murderers everywhere.