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The Dead Air: Hot Mic
Paperback
Series: The Dead Air
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
(Some secrets are buried in the dark. Others are broadcasting on an open channel.)
Clara Hayes just wanted a quiet life. After barely surviving a nightmare stalker, she traded the chaotic city for a soundproofed basement studio, spending her nights running phase-cancellation sweeps and editing corporate audio files. She thought she was safe behind her heavy steel door and copper-mesh walls.
Then her tape deck kicks on by itself.
What Clara intercepts is not a glitch, but a high-frequency radio signal: the charismatic frontrunner for state governor, Senator Robert Sterling, casually ordering the assassination of a senior investigative journalist to protect an elite multi-million-dollar infrastructure slush fund.
When the official police report rules the journalist's murder an accidental drowning, Clara realizes the corruption goes all the way to the top. Thrust into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, she is hunted through the city's rain-soaked streets and abandoned subterranean transit terminals by Marcus Vance-a ruthless former military intelligence fixer who treats human lives like static on a bad frequency.
Teaming up with David Aris, a burned cyber-crime detective digging through the department's digital ghosts, Clara must decode a complex web of acoustic steganography to expose the truth. With time running out and her own family weaponized as leverage, Clara realizes there is only one way to survive the hunt.
She has to hijack the master broadcast during the state's live televised gubernatorial debate-and force the world to listen to a hot mic.
From the damp subterranean vaults to a high-stakes media war, The Dead Air: Hot Mic is a taut, pulse-pounding techno-thriller about courage, surveillance, and the terrifying power of an unedited truth.
The mic is hot. The clock is ticking. Welcome back to The Dead Air.
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