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The Silence Merchant

By Ionut Morosanu

The Silence Merchant

By Ionut Morosanu

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¿The disbarred detective Miles fights a new enemy: a powerful university that uses legal silence to conceal financial crimes and erase the minds of its best scientists.¿Miles is a ghost,a detective who lost his name and his career fighting a corrupt bureaucracy that nearly broke him. He lives off-grid, haunted by the memory of a system he couldn't beat. But when Mira Vance approaches him, reporting her brilliant virologist brother, Dr. Aris Vance, has vanished, Miles sees a pattern: another soul swallowed by an institution.¿The investigation quickly proves Aris didn't run away; he was meticulously erased.¿Miles finds himself confronting Eleanor Voss, the university's cold-blooded Chief Legal Counsel. Voss doesn't wield guns; she wields law. She treats Miles not as a criminal, but as a "chaotic variable" to be neutralized by court procedure. She freezes his last assets, convinces the police he is mentally unstable, and uses a web of NDAs and injunctions to bury the truth.¿The deeper Miles digs, the darker the motive becomes: Aris was about to expose not just data suppression, but a massive money laundering operation funding the Board of Regents through the shell company 'Academia Services LLC.'¿Miles is cornered, betrayed by his own legal counsel, and operating as a financially toxic fugitive. His only option is to descend into the Administrative Ledger of Silence,a hidden vault containing the university's century-long history of paper-trail suppressions.¿In the final confrontation, Voss gives Miles a choice: a full legal pardon and a lucrative job inside the system, or certain ruin. But when Miles discovers Aris's ultimate fate that he was given "The Silence Merchant," a neuro-suppressant drug that chemically and legally erased his mind, leaving him a vacant shell he realizes the crime is worse than murder.¿Miles chooses ruin. By broadcasting the truth to the world during the Founder's Day Gala, he achieves justice but sacrifices his last shred of legal identity. Now a ghost who successfully toppled a multi-billion dollar criminal empire, Miles is truly The Anonymous Force, ready to hunt the next silence in the darkness.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
42
Release Date:
2025-10-28
Publication Date:
2025-10-28
Publisher:
Ionut Morosanu
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798232940430
Weight:
68 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
3 cm
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