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    612-822-4611

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Backstage

Backstage

Kushnir, Ivan

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798250084482
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Do you think your vote actually matters?

Think again.

It's not the will of the people running the show-it's an algorithm.

Nick was the star poli-sci student who still believed in the analog circuit breakers of democracy. He defended the Electoral College as the last firewall against mob chaos. But when he steps onto a private island where the global elite gather in secret, theory turns into blood-soaked practice.

Here, amid obscene luxury and digital sterility, Nick discovers the ugly truth: modern politics isn't a clash of ideas-it's a closed-circuit aquarium. Transparency isn't honesty here; it's the complete absence of a private life. Safety isn't protection-it's total control. And citizens? They're just pixels in the game the island's gods play, manipulating reality with AI and razor-sharp cynicism.

When Nick is turned into the system's chief narrative architect, he realizes he's built his own prison. He's no longer a spectator-he's prey in the final spectacle, his death live-streamed between cat videos and bikini ads.

Backstage is intellectual horror that dissects the machinery of power.

It's a mirror you're afraid to look into-because what you see isn't a citizen.

It's an inhabitant of a glass cage whose life is worth no more than a number on a tablet screen.

Are you ready to find out who really holds the remote to your world?

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