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Book 6 - The Palace Audit
Paperback
Series: A Benjamin Forensic Thriller, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Palace Audit: A Benjamin Forensic Thriller (Book 5)
Architectural Espionage Systems Warfare Forensic Realism
In a city of marble and neon static, the ultimate audit has moved into the foundations of power. A structural lie is the most dangerous kind of debt.
In the fifth installment of the Benjamin Forensic Thriller series, Dr. Peter Fogarty (PhD) utilizes 25 years of pedagogical and systems expertise to deconstruct the most fortified structure on Earth: The People's Palace in Bucharest. This is a Technothriller of Geological Scale, where Forensic Realism meets the terrifying reality of predictive state surveillance.
Bucharest, February 2026. Z-Cell scanners chirp at every metro station-a constant reminder that privacy is a luxury for the dead. Benjamin, the reluctant auditor who survived the Delta, is pulled back into the concrete gray of the capital when a massive discrepancy appears in the national reconstruction budget. Millions of Euros are disappearing into a sub-basement account that doesn't exist on any digital map.
ENGINEERED FOR TECHNICAL PRECISIONDr. Fogarty brings a specialist's eye to the Mathematics of Power, where the weapon isn't a gun, but a Laser Disto and a ruggedized tablet:
Structural Anomalies: When Ben's laser measurements reveal twelve meters of missing internal space in the North Wing, he discovers the Machine breathing behind the marble.
Cold War Infrastructure: Deep beneath the crystal chandeliers lies a secret world of pneumatic tubes, copper-wire intercoms, and high-frequency trading bots running on a sovereign power grid.
The Zero-Sum Algorithm: A predictive model that calculates the economic value of every citizen. If your value drops too low, you aren't executed-you are systemically deleted. IDs cancelled. Bank accounts frozen. Smart-homes locked.
Void Logic: Surviving a vertical descent through eighty meters of black iron pipes while fighting ferro-fluid tracers that make the human body glow on the Board's spectrum.
From the eight underground levels of the Palace to a desperate chase through the Dâmbovița culverts, Ben must find Elena-a data analyst who spotted the structural lie-before the midnight Purge turns sixty thousand citizens into rounding errors.
WHY READERS OF TECHNICAL NOIR CHOOSE DR. PETER FOGARTY:Forensic Authenticity: Written for readers who demand architectural accuracy and a hero who wins with logic and spatial awareness.
Systems Warfare: A terrifyingly plausible look at a near-future where surveillance is built into the very concrete of the state.
Atmospheric Industrial Noir: An immersive exploration of Bucharest's brutalist history reimagined through the lens of 2026 technology.
The math always favors the house. It's time to break the house. Discover what happens when the rounding errors fight back.
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