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Bread and Circuses
When a city’s hunger becomes its heartbeat, one man discovers the truth beneath the spectacle—and the cost of looking away.
In a world where every building is a screen and every waking moment is consumed by the Feed, architect Avery Stroud has become one of the most powerful unseen forces on the planet. His systems keep billions enthralled—happily distracted, endlessly engaged, quietly controlled.
But when an impossible alert appears inside the core of the Feed—a whisper of a secret network called the Compact—Avery uncovers a hidden channel touching the global ownership ledger itself. It shouldn’t exist. It shouldn’t be active. And it shouldn’t be changing the world without anyone noticing.
Across the city, investigative journalist Lira Mendoza has followed the numbers to the edge of a conspiracy no one believes. Economist Jonah Kade has begun to map the quiet erasure of private wealth. Both see pieces of a pattern. Avery sees the machine behind it.
And with the world about to plunge into the largest immersive event in history, the Sweep is accelerating.
As billions surrender their senses to spectacular illusion, three strangers must decide whether truth still matters in a civilization addicted to its own entertainment—and whether they can stop a transformation already underway.
A razor-sharp dystopian thriller about power, distraction, and the quiet theft of human agency.
In a world where every building is a screen and every waking moment is consumed by the Feed, architect Avery Stroud has become one of the most powerful unseen forces on the planet. His systems keep billions enthralled—happily distracted, endlessly engaged, quietly controlled.
But when an impossible alert appears inside the core of the Feed—a whisper of a secret network called the Compact—Avery uncovers a hidden channel touching the global ownership ledger itself. It shouldn’t exist. It shouldn’t be active. And it shouldn’t be changing the world without anyone noticing.
Across the city, investigative journalist Lira Mendoza has followed the numbers to the edge of a conspiracy no one believes. Economist Jonah Kade has begun to map the quiet erasure of private wealth. Both see pieces of a pattern. Avery sees the machine behind it.
And with the world about to plunge into the largest immersive event in history, the Sweep is accelerating.
As billions surrender their senses to spectacular illusion, three strangers must decide whether truth still matters in a civilization addicted to its own entertainment—and whether they can stop a transformation already underway.
A razor-sharp dystopian thriller about power, distraction, and the quiet theft of human agency.
440 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2025
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