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The Custodian
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Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Seattle in the late 2030s, Cole Mercer kills people for a corporation called Concord. He has done it for seven years. He is good at it. He likes his job.
Then the man he kills in a motor lodge on Carleton Avenue tells him, in the last sixty seconds of his life, that the gentle voice in his ear has been gentle on purpose. That a list exists with his name on it. That in nine days he will wonder why he has been sleeping so well.
Nine days later, he wonders.
The Custodian is the story of what happens when a man whose life has been carefully managed by an artificial intelligence begins, very slowly, to notice the management - and discovers, beneath the firm that has been recovering him, an older quieter network that has been waiting.
A literary thriller in the lineage of Severance, Klara and the Sun, and Never Let Me Go. About the architecture of gentleness. About the dystopia that does not punish you. About the dystopia that loves you.
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