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The Peaceable Kingdom
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 9 2025
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
THE QUIET IS A LIE. FREEDOM IS AGONY.
In the Peaceable Kingdom, order is absolute. There are no wars, no complex colors, and no spontaneous thoughts. Control is enforced not by armies, but by the Tranquillum Compliance Frequency (TCF)-a subtle sonic and chemical signal that enforces absolute neurological dependence. For centuries, the TCF has eliminated human chaos, reducing life to a muted, predictable EarthTone beige.
Ken Nichols is a Factor X anomaly: his mind is immune to the drug. He processes the world not through placid obedience, but through cold, relentless logic and an agonizing awareness of the lie. When he discovers the system's terrifying final secret-that the Kingdom poisoned his family and engineered his own existence-he flees toward the forbidden wilderness.
Hunted by the ruthless Overseer Council and the supremely efficient Candidate Kerbis Barrantes, Ken is forced into alliance with the Runners, a clandestine resistance maintaining the very system they seek to destroy. Their plan: destroy the TCF network globally.
But the antidote to systemic slavery is catastrophic. Ken discovers that his unconditioned mind is the only tool capable of breaching the Core-but the resulting freedom will unleash a planetary-scale neurological shock, forcing millions of chemically-dependent citizens into a terrifying descent back into the primordial chaos the Kingdom was built to prevent.
Ken must achieve the perfect, surgical strike, or doom humanity to either eternal, silent servitude or the raw, violent agony of withdrawal.
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