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The Last File

The Last File

Bailey, John

Paperback

Series: The Aurigan Conflict

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798170885565
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dr. Markus Voss has spent thirteen years building the most efficient intelligence operation in the Aurigan Empire.

He knows how the Empire steals technology. He knows how it recruits agents, exploits corporations, manipulates universities, and turns bureaucracy into an instrument of power. He knows exactly how the machine works because he helped build it.

And he has always believed that competence could keep him above its reach.

Then he meets Elena Marlowe.

A translator with an inconvenient habit of telling the truth, Elena is unlike anyone Voss has encountered inside the Ministry. She does not flatter him. She does not fear him. And, most dangerously of all, she sees the difference between the truth and the official version of it.

Their unlikely relationship changes Voss in ways he does not fully understand.

Then Elena disappears.

The Ministry insists there is nothing to investigate. Her personnel file says almost nothing. Her colleagues know nothing. Every official explanation is perfectly reasonable.

Too reasonable.

Voss begins to pull at the threads.

What he discovers is a system far more dangerous than the intelligence operation he thought he knew: a network of secret files, detention centers, fabricated evidence, sleeping agents, stolen technology, and carefully maintained bureaucratic machinery designed to make inconvenient people disappear.

And Voss discovers something even more disturbing.

The same system that destroyed Elena can eventually destroy him.

He has a choice.

Protect himself and continue serving the Empire that made him powerful...

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