Vault

di Vince Peersman (Autore)

Vince Peersman, 2026

In this relentless near-future thriller, Vince Peersman delivers a chilling story of conspiracy, survival, and resistance — while asking how much of our humanity we are willing to sacrifice in the name of order. VAULT is an unsettlingly plausible look into our future. An examination of power, technology, and a world in which keeping society under control makes people expendable in the name of stability. Recipient of a ????? Five-star Readers' Favorite review. --- VAULT - THE MEMORY OF YOU IS JUST A FILE. In the near future, everything is managed. Outbreaks. Panic. Truth. Even grief. Billions of people escape into Vault™, the world's most immersive VR metaverse, owned by Mirror Dynamic™, while the real world collapses unseen. For outbreak analyst Noah Mercer, Vault is the only place where the death curves stop following him. Until users begin to vanish. A missing racer. A deleted crew. A blank space where a name should be. What Noah finds was never meant to be seen. As an AI-designed virus spreads outside, governments and Mirror Dynamic make a pact. Not to save the infected. To erase them cleanly enough that no one asks where they went. Hunted by Burn Teams and a man who believes order matters more than names, Noah and a fractured team of journalists, hackers, and intelligence operatives must expose the machine before the dead lose their final right: Proof that they existed at all. --- "If Black Mirror, 1984, and The Circle kept you up at night, VAULT will keep you there longer." --- Recipient of a ????? Five-star Readers' Favorite review. In Vince Peersman's Vault, epidemiologist Noah Mercer analyzes outbreaks in a near-future world where billions spend much of their lives inside Vault, a virtual reality platform created by technology billionaire Adrian Valek. At night, Noah races there as Nightshift, until Brazilian racer Thiago Pereira disappears and his profile begins vanishing from old competition records. Noah turns to Vanta, a hacker, who discovers entire Vault communities have been erased in the same way. Their search intersects with investigative journalist Rosa Alvarez, who has been tracing unexplained deaths that official systems seem determined to remove from public record. The trail eventually points to Strategic Continuity director Gabriel Schultz, whose reach extends into outbreak surveillance and Vault itself. As Noah follows the missing people behind the statistics, he realizes someone is engineering disappearance on a terrifying scale. Vince Peersman's Vault is an incredible dystopian thriller that offers a frighteningly plausible future. Noah is a protagonist we want to root for, with his epidemiology background giving his search for missing people an unusual angle on the lives inside statistics. I love how Rosa's distrust of digital records grows naturally from the scratched analog recorder her father gave her as a child, making magnetic tape unexpectedly valuable. The world-building is excellent too, such as the abandoned municipal archive with moldy filing cabinets where paper records survive systems capable of rewriting history. Vanta is terrific when she gets former intelligence operative Mara Vance into an app-rental car under the name Pavel, a divorced dentist with excellent credit. Well written and totally immersive, readers who enjoy intelligent dystopian fiction will adore this book. - Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite --- Get VAULT today, before they erase it.

• Autore: Vince Peersman
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Vince Peersman
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235077126