The Ghost Architect with Provenance Zero

di Garth Toxo (Autore)

Dex System, 2026

In The Ghost Architect, Dr. Maybelle Vance is an acoustic master whose severe hyperacusis has turned the everyday world into a violent physical assault, forcing her to design spaces of absolute silence for the hyper-wealthy. When a reclusive tech visionary commissions a subterranean bunker deep within the Olympic Peninsula, Maybelle discovers the structure is not a luxury retreat but a colossal acoustic lens carved seventy feet into volcanic bedrock. Engineered to mechanically trap the Cascadia Subduction Zone's tectonic vibrations, the facility transforms into a weaponized listening platform that harvests classified defense telemetry. Trapped beneath forty thousand tons of living basalt alongside an elite federal recovery team, Maybelle must turn her extreme sensory torment into a precision tool to shatter the room's deadly geometry before an incoming seismic pulse destroys them all. In Provenance Zero, forensic conservator Julian Miller lives in the tactile margins of the material world, examining physical paper and ink beneath a Seattle warehouse while high-frequency financial algorithms hum above. When an enigmatic 1938 philosophical manuscript arrives in a sealed case, rigorous spectroscopic and chemical testing proves the artifact is unequivocally authentic to pre-war Europe. Yet halfway through the folios, the text shifts from dense German philosophy to an impossible, verified record of Cold War satellite telemetry, modern corporate collapses, and raw twenty-first-century data streams. Pursued across Europe by powerful financial syndicates and legacy trusts determined to control the future, Julian uncovers an electrodynamic anomaly that captured the temporal back-scatter of modern civilization, forcing him to choose between proving an impossible archaeological truth and preventing an impending global blackout that will erase reality on September 8, 2026.

• Autore: Garth Toxo
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Dex System
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235609846