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The Warden: No One Built the Cage
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781996990216
Publisher: Notagain.L
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
His name is scratched into a London wall in a language no one has spoken for three thousand years. Beneath it lies a compass that does not point north.
London, 2026. Phones are compliance instruments. Pavements read your signal. Paying cash raises a flag. Rex has no phone, no record, and no emotional signature the city's monitors can read. He has come to take the cage apart.
To do it, he moves backward through time to the places where the system took shape: Brussels in 1992, Washington in 1968, Basel in 1930, New York in 1923, Vienna in 1873. In every era he hunts for the person who built it. In every era he finds only people who kept it running.
No conspiracy. No villain. Only ordinary people making sensible decisions, and a cage that built itself.
At MI6, Deputy Director General Catherine Lear sees what the grid cannot explain: two dead zones in a city built to hear everything. She opens a private file. She will keep it for eleven years, into a 2037 where the system has begun making errors it records as natural causes.
Rex believes the mission is his own. It is not. And the Warden is not what you think it is.
The Warden: No One Built the Cage is a standalone dystopian techno-thriller of time travel, espionage and mass surveillance, for readers of Blake Crouch and Daniel Suarez.
From NotAgain.L, author of PROJECT AI: An ASI Thriller.
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