The Backlog

One click. €12.4 million gone. And all the evidence points to him.

Alex Radu is a senior project manager at a Bucharest tech company. Minutes before the launch of a major payment platform, he makes one reckless decision: he ignores a critical security warning and moves the problem to the backlog.

Three weeks later, €12,438,600 disappears.

A developer vanishes. The money is scattered through crypto wallets. And the digital evidence leads straight to Alex—his approval, his messages, his name in the code, even a suspicious payment.

The case looks perfect.

Too perfect.

Because the vulnerability Alex ignored was real.

But it wasn't the vulnerability that stole the money.

With his freedom at stake, Alex turns to Diana Vancea, a sharp cybercrime defense attorney who begins to uncover a conspiracy hidden inside manipulated code, corporate lies, and digital evidence designed to tell one very convincing story.

Someone was inside the system long before launch.

Someone knew Alex would make that mistake.

And someone needed one real mistake to make the perfect frame-up believable.

The Backlog is a fast-paced techno-legal thriller about cybercrime, corporate conspiracy, manipulated evidence, and the terrifying difference between making a mistake—and being chosen to take the blame for someone else's crime.