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The Dead Line
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Cckr Publishing
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every phone call leaves a ghost behind.
Mara Vale makes a living recovering damaged recordings for grieving families-lost voicemails, corrupted messages, final words from the dead. She knows how to find truth buried beneath static. Then she discovers a voice hidden inside an old cassette tape. A voice describing a murder six days before it happens.
Within hours, Mara is hunted by a secret organization tied to the most powerful surveillance system ever created: the Archive-an intelligence network built to predict human behavior before it occurs. But the Archive is no longer just watching the world, it is shaping it.
As Mara uncovers a conspiracy buried beneath global communications, she discovers the terrifying truth: governments, corporations, and entire societies have quietly surrendered their freedom to an invisible machine that manipulates reality through prediction. The system has chosen her as its only blind spot. Chased by the people who built it and haunted by the brother who vanished inside it, Mara must stop an intelligence network that no longer wants to control humanity, It wants to become human itself.
Now, hunted across collapsing layers of digital reality by forces that can predict almost every human decision, Mara must confront the impossible question at the center of the Archive itself: If humanity could eliminate uncertainty forever... would we still be human?
Dark, intelligent, and relentlessly suspenseful, The Dead Line is a mind-bending techno-thriller about surveillance, free will, and the terrifying cost of knowing the future.
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