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Regulated Truth: The Ashton Frey Series, Book 2
The world runs on lies. Ashton Frey just remembers too many of them.
When a man dead for three years turns up freshly murdered again, he should have walked away. Instead, Ashton, burned out, paranoid, and allergic to good decisions, takes the case anyway. Now he’s falling headfirst into a conspiracy of digital ghosts, a cold war no one will admit to starting, and corporate gods auctioning off the last scraps of human dignity by the byte. Plus shipping.
To survive it, he’ll need help from mercenaries, con artists, and at least two AIs several errors past sanity. Together, they’ll attempt one last impossible stealing the keys to reality itself.
Regulated Truth is a sharp, action-packed, and bitterly funny plunge into a cyberpunk world so absurd, so familiar… you’ll wish it wasn’t.
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The Ashton Frey series is a dark, action-packed, satirical cyberpunk descent into corporate dystopia, failing identities, and systems designed to own everything, including you.
Noir detective fiction crossed with dystopian sci-fi and razor-edged dark humor. A series you don't sample, you burn through.
If Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer are the future you grew up expecting, and the biting, irreverent edge of Douglas Adams at his most cynical is your kind of humor, you already know the territory, and If you tore through Murderbot for the voice or The Laundry Files for bureaucratic apocalypse played straight-faced, you're going to tear through this too.
When a man dead for three years turns up freshly murdered again, he should have walked away. Instead, Ashton, burned out, paranoid, and allergic to good decisions, takes the case anyway. Now he’s falling headfirst into a conspiracy of digital ghosts, a cold war no one will admit to starting, and corporate gods auctioning off the last scraps of human dignity by the byte. Plus shipping.
To survive it, he’ll need help from mercenaries, con artists, and at least two AIs several errors past sanity. Together, they’ll attempt one last impossible stealing the keys to reality itself.
Regulated Truth is a sharp, action-packed, and bitterly funny plunge into a cyberpunk world so absurd, so familiar… you’ll wish it wasn’t.
About the
The Ashton Frey series is a dark, action-packed, satirical cyberpunk descent into corporate dystopia, failing identities, and systems designed to own everything, including you.
Noir detective fiction crossed with dystopian sci-fi and razor-edged dark humor. A series you don't sample, you burn through.
If Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer are the future you grew up expecting, and the biting, irreverent edge of Douglas Adams at his most cynical is your kind of humor, you already know the territory, and If you tore through Murderbot for the voice or The Laundry Files for bureaucratic apocalypse played straight-faced, you're going to tear through this too.
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Published May 8, 2026
About the author
Rhys Constance
5 books2 followersBorn in Australia, Rhys Constance developed a rare allergy to sand and happiness. Finland had neither. It was perfect. A place where winter feels like a blackout and summer feels like a tax audit from the sun. Both ideal conditions for writing satirical dystopian fiction. A lifelong admirer of sci-fi, cyberpunk, and the absurdity of human existence, Rhys specializes in stories where mega-corporations rule the world, technology ruins lives in hilarious ways, and the little guy has to out-think the system (or at least make a few sarcastic remarks before getting crushed by it).
His debut novel, Privatized Freedom, is a satirical dive into a world where personal liberty is just another thing you can’t afford. When he’s not writing, Rhys enjoys coffee strong enough to dissolve steel, video games, anime, and staring at the snow in quiet existential terror.
His debut novel, Privatized Freedom, is a satirical dive into a world where personal liberty is just another thing you can’t afford. When he’s not writing, Rhys enjoys coffee strong enough to dissolve steel, video games, anime, and staring at the snow in quiet existential terror.
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