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Mindcage
His name is not his name. His memories are not his memories. His daughter never existed.
In the neon-lit city of Palladium, everyone carries a CerebraLink, a neural implant that records, stores, and organizes their lives. For Detective Kenzo Bale, his CerebraLink is a forensic tool, capturing crime scenes in perfect detail. For someone else, it was a weapon.
When two murder victims are found with their memories completely erased, Kenzo's investigation leads him to a discovery that dismantles everything he believes about himself. Two years ago, a neural engineer named Elias Rae was captured and his identity replaced. Kenzo Bale was built from the wreckage.
Now, with his constructed identity fracturing and fragments of his original self bleeding through, Kenzo discovers that 312 people in Palladium carry the same hidden modifications, and in 68 hours, a protocol will make every modification permanent. Three hundred and twelve minds, sealed forever.
To stop it, he must trust a partner who isn't human, a memory broker whose daughter was modified at nine, and a mentor who doesn't remember his own child. He must use a failsafe that the man he used to be hid inside the system designed to erase him.
The question is not whether he can save them. The question is what will be left of him when he does.
Mindcage is a cyberpunk thriller about stolen identity, artificial consciousness, and the stubborn persistence of love in minds redesigned to forget it.
In the neon-lit city of Palladium, everyone carries a CerebraLink, a neural implant that records, stores, and organizes their lives. For Detective Kenzo Bale, his CerebraLink is a forensic tool, capturing crime scenes in perfect detail. For someone else, it was a weapon.
When two murder victims are found with their memories completely erased, Kenzo's investigation leads him to a discovery that dismantles everything he believes about himself. Two years ago, a neural engineer named Elias Rae was captured and his identity replaced. Kenzo Bale was built from the wreckage.
Now, with his constructed identity fracturing and fragments of his original self bleeding through, Kenzo discovers that 312 people in Palladium carry the same hidden modifications, and in 68 hours, a protocol will make every modification permanent. Three hundred and twelve minds, sealed forever.
To stop it, he must trust a partner who isn't human, a memory broker whose daughter was modified at nine, and a mentor who doesn't remember his own child. He must use a failsafe that the man he used to be hid inside the system designed to erase him.
The question is not whether he can save them. The question is what will be left of him when he does.
Mindcage is a cyberpunk thriller about stolen identity, artificial consciousness, and the stubborn persistence of love in minds redesigned to forget it.
230 pages, Hardcover
Published June 18, 2025
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About the author
Ayman Hamadeh
27 books2 followersI write dark, intense fiction. The kind that crawls under your skin and stays there. Psychological thrillers, dark fantasy, and the occasional story that doesn't fit neatly into any box. But I don't like staying in one lane. I write a little bit of everything, and I go wherever the story takes me.
What I care about most is making every page earn your time. I want you hooked from the first line and still thinking about the ending days later. That's the standard I hold myself to.
If you're here, you probably like stories with teeth. Pull up a chair. I think we'll get along.
What I care about most is making every page earn your time. I want you hooked from the first line and still thinking about the ending days later. That's the standard I hold myself to.
If you're here, you probably like stories with teeth. Pull up a chair. I think we'll get along.
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