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Under Interrogation
Paperback
Series: Approximate Truth, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Andrew Manus Loable
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE MACHINE DOES NOT REVEAL TRUTH. IT PRODUCES CONFIDENCE.
Detective Caleb Smith believes in the data. In a city governed by the Compassion Protocol, neural synchronization has replaced the uncertainty of interrogation. Strap on the band, sync with a suspect, and feel their guilt. No more bias. No more doubt. Just the raw, high-resolution evidence of the human heart.
But some signals are lies.
When a young woman is murdered in the foothills, the machine red-lines for a terrified father whose panic is indistinguishable from a confession. But for the witness who found the body, the readout is a perfect, chilling flatline. Absolute calm. Absolute innocence.
Caleb clears a predator. He destroys a victim.
Now the bodies are dropping again, and the machine has no answers. Hidden in the protocol's blind spot is a Null Signal a killer the technology was never built to see, a man so hollow that the system mistakes his void for virtue. To stop the slaughter, Caleb must go rogue, sacrifice his badge, and risk his own emotional baseline to hunt a monster invisible to every instrument except the one the machine was designed to replace: human instinct.
In the search for truth, a perfect score is the ultimate deception.
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