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Mercury Weeps Where The Marrow Thins
The city is speaking. Only he knows it’s a warning.
Dr. Alistair Finch is a man haunted by the ghost of a dead language. A disgraced linguist whose radical theories on the acoustic origins of language cost him his career, he now lives a life of quiet resignation, translating corporate jargon in a sterile grey cubicle. His world of self-imposed silence is shattered when a high-profile city commissioner is found dead, encased in a bizarre resin tomb. The only clue is a cryptic message etched from the inside—a message written in the very theoretical language that destroyed Alistair’s life.
Pulled from his exile, Alistair becomes the sole interpreter of a posthumous warning from a dead man. The message leads him on a desperate hunt through the city’s decaying infrastructure, where he discovers the truth is far more terrifying than he imagined. A shadowy corporation, Aethelred, has woven a language of fear into the very hum of the metropolis, using a network of sonic emitters to manipulate the emotions of an entire population. This isn't just a conspiracy; it's a weapon of mass psychological warfare, and Alistair is the only one who can hear it.
Hunted by Aethelred's silent, ruthless enforcers, Alistair must race to decipher the final pieces of the message—a sonic ‘kill switch’ designed to destroy the network from within. Armed with only a field recorder and his shattered theories, he becomes a ghost in the machine, a lone warrior in a war no one else knows is being fought. To save the city, he must embrace the very obsession that once ruined him and conduct a final, devastating symphony of his own.
A cerebral, high-stakes techno-thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Michael Crichton, Mercury Weeps Where The Marrow Thins is a descent into a world of acoustic horror, where the most dangerous weapon is the one you can’t hear, and the price of the truth is a silence more terrifying than any sound.
Dr. Alistair Finch is a man haunted by the ghost of a dead language. A disgraced linguist whose radical theories on the acoustic origins of language cost him his career, he now lives a life of quiet resignation, translating corporate jargon in a sterile grey cubicle. His world of self-imposed silence is shattered when a high-profile city commissioner is found dead, encased in a bizarre resin tomb. The only clue is a cryptic message etched from the inside—a message written in the very theoretical language that destroyed Alistair’s life.
Pulled from his exile, Alistair becomes the sole interpreter of a posthumous warning from a dead man. The message leads him on a desperate hunt through the city’s decaying infrastructure, where he discovers the truth is far more terrifying than he imagined. A shadowy corporation, Aethelred, has woven a language of fear into the very hum of the metropolis, using a network of sonic emitters to manipulate the emotions of an entire population. This isn't just a conspiracy; it's a weapon of mass psychological warfare, and Alistair is the only one who can hear it.
Hunted by Aethelred's silent, ruthless enforcers, Alistair must race to decipher the final pieces of the message—a sonic ‘kill switch’ designed to destroy the network from within. Armed with only a field recorder and his shattered theories, he becomes a ghost in the machine, a lone warrior in a war no one else knows is being fought. To save the city, he must embrace the very obsession that once ruined him and conduct a final, devastating symphony of his own.
A cerebral, high-stakes techno-thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Michael Crichton, Mercury Weeps Where The Marrow Thins is a descent into a world of acoustic horror, where the most dangerous weapon is the one you can’t hear, and the price of the truth is a silence more terrifying than any sound.
355 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 13, 2025
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