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The Certified Man
Paperback
Series: Provenance, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Mara Vance can tell you whether any face in the world is the face it claims to be. It is the one thing she has ever been good at, and it has cost her everything softer.
In a near-future London where your body is your password and cash is contraband, a dead banker leaves behind a flawless filmed confession, watched four hundred million times and certified genuine by every machine that matters. Mara, handed the file by a referral list she will learn does not exist, needs one sleepless night to prove it is a forgery. Someone rewrote a man's last words to bury the testimony he never lived to give.
Pulling that thread costs her clients, her one friend inside the system, and the fragile truce with the daughter she keeps failing. Because the fake she cracked open is a splinter of something vast: a power that decides who is real, moving quietly toward a vote that will write itself into the blood of every child not yet born.
She has the proof. But in a world that trusts only the record, they don't need to take it from her. They only need to make her name too expensive to believe.
THE CERTIFIED MAN is Book One of PROVENANCE, a surveillance-noir thriller series set in a city that has abolished doubt. For readers of Blake Crouch, John le Carré, and the world of Minority Report. Includes the bonus prequel story GROUND TRUTH.
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