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Socavón: A Perpetual Concession
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Convergencia Humana
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ana had everything it takes to triumph in television: the rawest reports, the highest ratings, a country with an insatiable hunger to watch its own misery in 4K. But what she uncovered in her investigations cost her everything - and turned her into a fugitive in a Chile where the trains are run by the PSI, the streets are watched by SecurCorp's algorithms, and justice is administered by contract.
In the south, above the exhausted coal galleries of Lota, rises the crown jewel of that new order: a corporate prison carved into the mine shaft itself, where inmates dress in black to blend into the abyss and sentences are paid in extracted mineral. All of it sheltered by a pact nobody voted for and nobody can revoke: a perpetual concession.
While Ana weaves her strategy from hiding with the help of an engineer who codes in the margins of the system, Diego descends into the prison, where the inmates' unwritten laws weigh more than any security protocol. What they both find in the darkness - the concession's best-kept secret - is the kind of truth an entire country would rather not ask about.
Socavón: A Perpetual Concession is a dystopian noir thriller about the privatization of punishment, the price of ratings, and the limit of greed: a manhunt born in the depths of the coal and destined to end among the glass towers of Santiago.
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