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The Exported Dead
Paperback
Series: The Memory Tax, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Adam H.S. Stone
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Memory Tax has fallen. But the dead were exported before they could come home.
After exposing the truth behind the government's Memory Tax, Maya Fatima Rahman Dastan Sayegh believes the stolen pieces of her past can finally be returned. The Memory Banks are closed, the Ministry of Continuity has collapsed, and the world now knows that her childhood memories were divided, sold, and used to hide a massacre.
But the revolution was only the beginning.
When a hidden export ledger surfaces, Maya discovers the horrifying truth: thousands of stolen memories were shipped beyond the Republic's borders before the fall of the Tax. Her mother's final scream, fragments of the Avenue massacre, memories of displaced children, erased witnesses, and entire lives taken under hunger are now scattered across foreign museums, private collections, luxury grief salons, offshore clinics, and black-market archives.
With Elias Crane at her side, Maya follows the trail to Saint Orison, a wealthy city-state where stolen suffering is displayed as cultural heritage. There, she encounters Lady Celeste Armand, a powerful collector who owns one of the most painful fragments of Maya's past, and the Mneme Cartel, a ruthless network harvesting human memory on a global scale.
As Maya uncovers the Orchard Protocol-a secret program designed to farm grief from refugees, children, and the displaced-she must confront an impossible question: can stolen memories truly be returned, or does justice demand something more complicated than taking them back?
Dark, emotional, cinematic, and filled with political intrigue, romance, action, betrayal, and global conspiracy, The Exported Dead expands The Memory Tax Series into a world where memory is the most valuable contraband of all.
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