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Operation Silence: How a scapegoat gets made
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 6 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Operation Silence tells the story of the Viking, a tech entrepreneur who built his life from the ground up-without degrees, without family nearby, and with no room for mistakes. Smart, stubborn, and deeply human, he turns his home into a hybrid space: office, refuge, and opportunity. He shelters people experiencing homelessness, walks alongside those battling addiction, and offers work to those who arrive broken. His greatest virtue-opening doors-is also his greatest vulnerability.
The conflict ignites from a tiny signal: small thefts within his close circle and a coldly delivered threat. The Viking confronts it the way he always does: head-on. But the response isn't an ordinary dispute. The adversary hides behind connections and a last name that carries more weight than any truth. From that moment on, reality shifts gears-everyday life becomes a chessboard.
What follows is a vertiginous escalation: repeated 911 calls, a lukewarm police response, intimidation attacks with stun blasts, an atmosphere that hardens the moment a name is spoken, and the growing sense that the State no longer functions as protection, but as threat. The night fractures with an armed intrusion with no visible warrant, an improvised escape across rooftops, and a transfer that, far from feeling procedural, feels like being driven toward a final destination. In a hospital, the protagonist tries to ask for help and runs into another layer of silence: no one wants to get involved.
At the police station, the script becomes explicit: an attempt to manufacture a case, compliant witnesses, casually spoken lines about evidence that won't be there, and the use of trigger-words that turn a citizen into a threat. What makes the difference is a technical detail: private cameras that record and upload online. That evidence halts a larger transfer, but it doesn't prevent punishment. The Viking walks out with physical marks and a case that functions like a label: they don't release him-they brand him.
From that point on, the hunt moves beyond institutional walls: fragile shelters, hunger, the street, surveillance, and an operation of social invalidation that includes the quietest weapon of all-a piece of paper meant to turn his story into delusion. As he runs to stay alive, an intimate betrayal accelerates the dispossession. An ex-partner with total access to the internal structure attempts to take over the company through email changes, financial movements, the theft of key equipment, and new locks. The attack is no longer only physical or legal-it's identity itself.
Exiled and without a safety net, the Viking rebuilds with method: he separates facts from hypotheses, organizes evidence, builds a timeline, and creates an invisible file so memory can't be intercepted. Writing becomes a tool-not for scandal, but to illuminate a mechanism. Operation Silence is a novel based on real events about corruption, manufactured narratives, informal power, and survival-a literary testimony where truth isn't shouted: it's organized, protected, and written.
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