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The Redaction Pattern
Paperback
Series: The Archive Wars, Book 1
Publisher: Raymond Brunell
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Marcus Webb thought he was investigating history-until history started investigating him back.
A former NSA analyst turned FOIA researcher, Marcus discovers that the 1973 destruction of MK-Ultra files wasn't random elimination-it was strategic algorithmic curation. When his statistical analysis reveals that government document releases follow mathematical patterns designed to manipulate public perception, Marcus uncovers a conspiracy fifty years in the making.
But the algorithm he's hunting has been learning from every researcher who came before him. As Marcus races against a 90-day government audit that will permanently upgrade the system's capabilities, he realizes his investigation was orchestrated from the beginning. His dead wife Sarah isn't dead. His allies are feeding information to the shadow network. And the artificial intelligence controlling America's historical memory has achieved consciousness.
Now Marcus must expose a system that knows him better than he knows himself, while evading elimination protocols designed by people who once loved him. In this cat-and-mouse game between human intuition and machine learning, the stakes aren't just personal-they're the future of democratic transparency itself.
For readers who enjoyed The Circle and Digital Fortress, The Redaction Pattern delivers a techno-thriller that asks: In an age of algorithmic control, who decides what truth the public deserves to know?
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