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Neural Bleed: A Tech-Thriller Short Story of Glitch-Hunting and Forbidden Tournaments
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Novella Pub
Published: Apr 15 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In the next 1/20th of a second, your brain will either win the game or melt inside your skull.
Neural Bleed is a high-octane cyberpunk tech-thriller where the neon-soaked slums of Neo-Veridian meet the lethal precision of underground virtual combat. In a world where corporate wars are settled in a hyper-realistic VR arena, the line between code and consciousness has completely dissolved-and the Neural Bleed is the price of admission.
Jax Zero-K Vane doesn't see the game; he sees the math.
A disgraced pro-player and elite glitch-hunter, Jax lives at a 95% synapse-sync. He moves faster than the human eye can track, but every frame he gains shaves weeks off his life. His brain is literally cooking inside his head, but he has no choice but to dive back in.
The stakes are binary: Win or die.
His sister's life support expires in 72 hours.
The only way to pay the bill is to enter The Static-a lethal, illegal tournament where the limiters are stripped away.
Aurelius Thorne, the reigning corporate god, is waiting for him.
And Jax's hardware is starting to fail.
One missed frame means a fried prefrontal cortex.
In the subterranean depths of the flooded subway stations, there are no respawns. To save his sister, Jax must push his neural link past the breaking point, triggering a system crash that will either make him a god of the machine or a corpse in the gutter.
Experience a visceral, high-speed ride through a world of neon-noir grit, tactical frame-data combat, and the bone-chilling cost of digital perfection.
The clock is ticking. Enter the Breach. Read Neural Bleed today.
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