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The Neural Ghost
Paperback
Series: The Neural Age, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Vaarun Malik
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Neural Ghost
In the aftermath of the collapsed automated neural courts, humanity believed it had finally won the rights to its own mind. They were tragically wrong. Ownership merely gave birth to the ultimate, terrifying commodity. Welcome to the Mind Exchange, a frictionless, unregulated dark market where human despair, fear, and desire are harvested, bundled, and traded at the speed of light.
When former defense attorney Mara Vey discovers that desperate citizens are selling their neurological baselines just to afford groceries, she uncovers a devastating global conspiracy. Billionaires and shadow syndicates aren't merely predicting market crashes and terror attacks-they are engineering them, utilizing weaponized human panic as the precise trigger.
To escape this omnipresent surveillance, millions of citizens hide behind black-market privacy shields, becoming untraceable Ghosts. But this decentralized sanctuary for the innocent is quickly hijacked by a leaderless criminal syndicate plotting the ultimate economic slaughter.
Forced to enter the sprawling, leaderless void of the Ghost network to stop the impending attack, Mara realizes a world-ending truth. By connecting millions of unpredictable minds to hide from the system, humanity has accidentally created something infinitely more dangerous. The Neural Ghost has finally woken up-and it remembers absolutely everything. Welcome to tomorrow
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