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Closely Observed: How a Victorian Romance, a Corgi, and a Sesame Ice Cream Blew the Fuse on Canada's National Security
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Series: The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius: Quantum Ethics Short Stories, Book 5
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781997999904
Publisher: Tremolo a Tioempo Design House
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jake Fidellius is a prolific queer British author and composer living a quiet, distinctly orderly life in the snowy Distillery District of Toronto. His days consist of worrying about the consistency of his instant porridge, drinking expensive espresso at local haunts, and looking after Carruthers, his partially deaf rescue corgi. He has absolutely no desire to disrupt public order.
The Canadian national security apparatus, however, has other plans.
Following a malicious, anonymous tip-off from a disgruntled neighbour, tactical analysts Vince and Jamal launch Project Holy Coffee. Operating from a sweltering, covert fish and chip truck parked outside Jake's apartment, they begin a multi-million dollar surveillance operation. Through a spectacular display of institutional confirmation bias, every single detail of Jake's benign life is weaponised into a sinister criminal plot.
A late-night internet search into first-century Judean socio-political dynamics is flagged as an illicit smuggling ring. An innocent trip to buy sesame bagels triggers a full tactical alert regarding Central Asian contraband networks. Even Jake's deep study of the ancient Hebrew concept of Lashon Hara, the evil tongue, is aggressively decoded as a high-level plot to deploy a laser on local transit.
While Vince and Jamal steadily deplete the federal budget eating powdered Timbits and hiding their own highly illicit habits, Jake finds his phone shut down, his banking disabled, and his local coffee shops overrun by plainclothes sting operations. What follows is a magnificent, cascading bureaucratic blunder that spirals from Toronto's historic St Lawrence Market all the way to an emergency audit room in Ottawa.
Based on the Quantum Ethics Short Stories Series by Alexander Paul Burton, this short satirical thriller exposes the staggering absurdity of state overreach, online doxxing, and the institutional paranoia that thrives when bureaucracy loses its sense of humour. It is a triumphant, entirely human-authored narrative that proves the ultimate rebellion against an unfeeling, hyper-predicted system is simply to create something authentic, raw, and beautifully independent.
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