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As You Are Awake: Book II of the Matheson Chronicles
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Series: The Matheson Chronicles, Book 2
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 378
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The case was supposed to be finished.
When federal agent Logan Matheson receives a letter from imprisoned contract killer Williams Hadow, he learns that the network they dismantled together was never complete. Hidden inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons - routed through its own administrative infrastructure by a man no prosecutor ever thought to look at - a parallel network of clients has continued operating. Witnesses silenced. Informants removed. The law used as cover for everything that runs beneath it.
Hadow has assembled what he can from inside a federal cell. The rest falls to Matheson.
As You Are Awake picks up where the primary case ended - with the verdict behind them and a harder truth waiting in West Virginia. Matheson rebuilds his architecture: a federal judge who has been waiting for exactly this case, a forensic accountant who can follow money through a labyrinth, and Billie, a former Bureau officer who operates in the space between the institutional record and the world that record cannot see.
But as the approach closes around Gerald Voss and the walls of a larger corruption, an older question resurfaces - one that began in a Chicago alley in 1998 and has never been fully answered. What was given there, and by whom, and whether it was grace or simply a careful man's choice not to look.
The Matheson Chronicles continue - precise, unflinching, and built around the belief that an honest account, assembled slowly and completely, is the only form of justice that holds.
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