They sell perfect pasts. His was just exposed as a lie.
Leo Vance is a "Narrative Cleaner"—a ghost in the machine who edits traumatic memories for the elite. His clients pay a fortune to have their painful truths polished into palatable fictions. His own life? A curated masterpiece of denial.
His latest commission comes from the most powerful man alive: Marlowe Sterling, reclusive founder of Echo Systems, the corporation that perfected memory-editing technology. The job is simple: erase one single, decades-old memory of a hospital tragedy.
But when Leo opens the file, his world fractures. In the warped reflection of a glass door, he doesn't see a young Sterling.
He sees his own seven-year-old face, twisted in a terror he has no memory of feeling.
In an instant, the hunter of lies becomes the hunted. Cut off from his resources and pursued by invisible operatives who sanitize problems with neural suppressors, Leo must tear down the very illusions he spent a lifetime building. His only clues are a ghost in a digital reflection and a data trail leading back to the corporation that owns the past. To survive, he must do the one thing he was trained never to do: investigate his own origins.
What readers are calling a "mind-bending masterpiece":
"A high-speed cerebral thriller that blends the paranoia of Philip K. Dick with the emotional punch of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."
"More than a sci-fi thriller—it's a haunting interrogation of identity. What does it mean to be 'you' when your past is a lie? This book will haunt your thoughts long after the final page."
Perfect for fans of:
Blake Crouch's Recursion and Dark Matter
The corporate dystopia of Severance
The mind-bending puzzles of Inception
Classic psychological sci-fi like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dive into this gripping exploration of memory, reality, and the fight to own your own mind
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