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The Tenth Witness
Paperback
Publisher: Todd Michael Publishing
Published: Nov 7 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the government could erase your identity to save your life, then decide it owned the person you became?
In The Tenth Witness, the second explosive installment of The Ninth Grudge series, a mysterious blue envelope, a forgotten hospital photograph, and seven names pull Camille Vale into a conspiracy built around identity, memory, power, and the institutions entrusted to protect them.
As a Supreme Court case emerges around a woman whose childhood identity may have been deliberately erased, Elias Vale and those around him are drawn into a labyrinth of sealed records, altered evidence, manufactured memories, hidden protection programs, and identities that may not belong to the people carrying them. At the center is a terrifying constitutional question: Can the government protect a person without acquiring control over who that person is?
But every discovery raises another question. Names can be reassigned. Voices can be reproduced. Records can be rewritten. Even the people exposing the conspiracy may be following roles designed for them decades earlier. And somewhere inside the machinery is WITNESS, an authority capable of determining not simply what is true, but whom the world will believe.
Blending legal thriller, political conspiracy, psychological suspense, institutional intrigue, and mystery, The Tenth Witness explores the collision between protection and control, identity and ownership, influence and free will. As long-buried secrets surface and loyalties fracture, the characters must confront an unsettling possibility: exposing the system may be exactly what the system expects them to do.
For readers who love intricate legal thrillers, political conspiracies, psychological suspense, secret government programs, shocking revelations, and mysteries where nothing can be trusted, The Tenth Witness pushes The Ninth Grudge series into darker and more dangerous territory.
Some secrets are hidden from the truth.
Others decide what the truth will be.
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