Dead Quiet County

di , Faizi (Autore)

fAIzi, 2025

Dead Quiet County is a place designed to be forgotten. Tucked into a remote stretch of the American interior, the county has no cell service, no tourist appeal, and no reason for anyone to pass through unless they already live there. Its population is small, its routines unchanging, its days marked by weather, habit, and long silences. For decades, that obscurity has been its greatest protection. Unknown to its residents, it has also been its purpose. When Caleb Rourke arrives under the cover of a routine federal assignment, he is not there to uncover a conspiracy or stop an attack. He has been sent to quietly dismantle the last surviving analog intelligence relay in the United States—a Cold War-era system built entirely on human behavior rather than technology. In an age where every signal can be intercepted and every digital trace exploited, Dead Quiet County remained valuable precisely because nothing ever seemed to happen there. The system was simple, elegant, and morally convenient. Messages passed through patterns no one questioned: repeated phrases at a diner counter, handwritten ledgers that never changed, the timing of a coffee refill, the way change was counted at a grocery store. The people who lived there were never recruited, never informed, and never asked for consent. They were safe because they were ignored. They were useful because they were invisible. But invisibility has a weakness—it collapses the moment someone truly pays attention. Caleb begins to notice subtle disruptions: a man who listens too closely, a routine broken by a single misplaced word, a memory resurfacing where none should exist. A foreign intelligence operative, posing as a federal land surveyor, has found the county not by chasing secrets, but by studying boredom. He does not steal information. He waits for patterns to reveal themselves. As the fragile system begins to unravel, Caleb is forced to confront a choice with no clean outcome. Exposing the network would protect the people—but destroy their way of life. Preserving it would safeguard national interests—at the cost of continuing to use unwitting civilians as tools. In Dead Quiet County, there are no heroes, only administrators of silence. Written with restraint and psychological depth, Dead Quiet County is a spy novel unlike any other. There are no chases, no gadgets, no dramatic reveals—only the slow accumulation of awareness and the quiet devastation that follows. It is a story about how nations hide their secrets not in complexity, but in neglect, and how ordinary lives can be shaped by decisions made far beyond their knowing. In the end, the most dangerous thing is not being watched. It is being forgotten.

• Autore: , Faizi
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: fAIzi
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231756063