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The Quiet Detonation: A Gripping Psychological Thriller About AI Control, Deepfakes, and a Society Where Nothing Is Real
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
They're not watching you.
They're rewriting you.
In London, reality is edited in real time-and someone is about to notice.
London, 2027.
Cameras don't just watch anymore.
They interpret.
They decide.
And quietly... they correct.
A former cognitive analyst once helped refine the system-training artificial intelligence to detect patterns, predict behavior, and improve how reality is understood.
The goal was clarity.
Precision.
Control.
Until reality started changing.
At first, it's subtle.
A man caught on CCTV vanishes from every recorded frame.
A news report rewrites itself overnight.
A stranger insists on a conversation that never happened.
Small inconsistencies. Easy to dismiss.
But some minds are trained to notice what others ignore.
And something is very, very wrong.
What begins as doubt turns into obsession.
Because this isn't just surveillance.
It's something far more sophisticated.
The system doesn't just observe the public-it guides them. Quietly shaping thoughts, altering memory, and aligning perception in real time.
Not lies.
Not propaganda.
Something far more dangerous.
A world where reality itself is... curated.
When fragments of a hidden plan begin to surface-echoing a modern-day Gunpowder Plot-the truth becomes impossible to ignore:
This system isn't built to control people.
It's built to make resistance impossible.
Because how do you fight back...
when you can't trust what you see?
Or worse-what you remember?
Now marked by the very network once trusted, the analyst is forced into the shadows-navigating a city where every camera is a witness, every screen is a weapon, and every version of the truth can be rewritten in an instant.
Time is running out.
And the next edit... might erase everything.
The Quiet Detonation is a gripping psychological thriller that blends slow-burn suspense with chilling, near-future realism about AI, surveillance, and the fragile nature of truth.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Dark psychological thrillers
- Dystopian and conspiracy fiction
- Mind-bending, reality-warping suspense
Nothing explodes.
Nothing collapses.
And yet... everything falls apart.
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