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The Delay: A Psychological Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Delay: A Psychological Thriller
What if the future didn't arrive all at once-
but slowly rewrote the past while you were still living in it?
Steven Mitchell is a brilliant but unemployed data scientist, restless, obsessive, and increasingly unmoored. When his girlfriend Emma, a neuroscientist, introduces him to an experimental memory-recording device, Steven sees more than cutting-edge technology-he sees a way to prove his most dangerous idea: that time is not linear, and that the future may already be shaping the present.
While ethical lines blur and colleagues quietly intervene, Steven must confront a question more urgent than proof: What is the cost of knowing too much about who you will be?
Blending psychological tension with speculative science, The Delay explores memory, free will, and the fragile boundary between discovery and obsession. It is a haunting, thought-provoking thriller about time-not as we measure it, but as it changes us.
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