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An Inconvenient Asset
Paperback
Series: Marlow Stevens Book, Book 16
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798244718195
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was trained to observe, not to intervene.
To understand systems, not to challenge them.
To disappear when required.
But some knowledge cannot be unlearned - and some silences demand a cost.
An Inconvenient Asset is a quiet, intelligent novel of espionage that unfolds not through spectacle, but through consequence. When a highly capable intelligence operative refuses to accept a carefully managed lie, she finds herself caught between institutions that depend on forgetting and individuals who refuse to be erased.
To understand systems, not to challenge them.
To disappear when required.
But some knowledge cannot be unlearned - and some silences demand a cost.
An Inconvenient Asset is a quiet, intelligent novel of espionage that unfolds not through spectacle, but through consequence. When a highly capable intelligence operative refuses to accept a carefully managed lie, she finds herself caught between institutions that depend on forgetting and individuals who refuse to be erased.
There are no heroes here.
No clean victories.
No dramatic revelations.
Instead, the novel explores how power protects itself, how truth is diluted rather than denied, and how survival sometimes means choosing anonymity over recognition.
Written with restraint, clarity, and psychological depth, An Inconvenient Asset will appeal to readers of serious espionage fiction - those who value atmosphere over action, implication over exposition, and moral weight over easy answers.
This is not a story about saving the world.
It is about remaining intact when the world prefers you weren't.
No clean victories.
No dramatic revelations.
Instead, the novel explores how power protects itself, how truth is diluted rather than denied, and how survival sometimes means choosing anonymity over recognition.
Written with restraint, clarity, and psychological depth, An Inconvenient Asset will appeal to readers of serious espionage fiction - those who value atmosphere over action, implication over exposition, and moral weight over easy answers.
This is not a story about saving the world.
It is about remaining intact when the world prefers you weren't.
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