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In Plain View: How Democracy Dies
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Democracy rarely falls with a single gunshot. It falls with paperwork.
When a criminal syndicate installs a puppet regime and declares emergency powers, the takeover doesn't look like a coup-it looks like efficiency. Audits are suspended. Courts are modernized. Budgets are rerouted through patriotic-sounding shell vendors. And the national treasury begins to vanish into private coffers, right in the open.
Natalie Venn, a disgraced Treasury auditor, finds the first crack in the machine: a digital trail left behind by arrogance. Carter Kade, a public defender watching the law dissolve in real time, realizes evidence is no longer protection-it's a target. Naomi Orlov, a journalist in exile, builds a publication that can't be silenced. And Jun Park, an infrastructure engineer, fights to keep a single thread of power and communication alive as the regime drags the country into darkness.
What begins as a leak becomes a reckoning.
In Plain View: How Democracy Dies is a high-stakes political thriller about institutional collapse, manufactured crisis, and the quiet mechanics of resistance-built not from speeches, but from receipts.
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