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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The manifest said 172. He counted 173. Now the system that got it wrong wants him to believe he can't count. Captain Rohan Sena is the kind of pilot who checks everything twice. Pitot tubes by touch. Fuel state by hand. Passenger count, verified, filed, closed. When a bomb tears through the rear cabin of his Boeing 777 over Turkey, he lands the aircraft, saves 289 lives, and does what pilots do: follows procedure. Then the numbers stop adding up. One passenger over the manifest. A man in seat 38F, observed, served orange juice, independently documented by three crew members, who does not appear on any record. No boarding card. No biometric entry. No passport scan. No name. He was there. He cannot have been there. Both of these things are true. When Sena reports the discrepancy, he expects an investigation. What he gets is a psychologist asking if he's sure about what he saw. A commander who arrived from London before the manifests were reconciled. A Head of Safety who knows exactly which questions not to ask. An airline that would very much like its hero pilot to stop being so precise about the number of people on his aircraft. The deeper Sena looks, the worse it gets. The biometric scanner recorded 173, then someone with government-level access deleted the 173rd. A second flight, eight months earlier, shows the same anomaly. The same contractor appears in both. The same silence follows. The bomb isn't the story. The bomb is the accident that exposed the story. Nine people died on Meridian 471. Not because of a security failure, because two covert operations collided on the same aircraft, and the institutional response chose to protect the programme over the dead. Now the only threat to that programme is a pilot who trusts his eyes more than his instruments, a forensic psychologist who can tell the difference between assessing a patient and managing a narrative, and a cabin crew veteran with a screenshot the airline doesn't know she has. The system doesn't need to prove them wrong. It just needs to make being right more expensive than they can afford. "The prose operates at the level of serious literary fiction. The sentence architecture is extraordinary. The philosophical depth is genuine." From the author of Compliant, the Sykesverse returns with a standalone thriller about aviation, identity, and the terrifying question at the heart of modern security: What happens when a person exists in physical space but nowhere else? For readers of le Carre, Mick Herron, and anyone who has ever wondered whether the security systems we walk through every time we fly were designed to protect us, or to perform the appearance of protection. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He wins every case. That's the problem.Elliot Crane is the most successful criminal barrister of his generation. A 94% acquittal rate. Six years of cases that other advocates couldn't win. A reputation built on analytical brilliance honed at Oxford and operational discipline forged in Helmand Province. Then he finds the pattern. A statistical anomaly buried in his own case record, outcomes too consistent to be skill, too precise to be luck. Cases assigned through channels he never questioned. Evidence disclosed at timings he never examined. Judges whose rulings, individually defensible, are collectively impossible. The pattern has a name: PALISADE. A classified programme coordinating criminal trials across the British justice system, managing which cases reach which barristers, which evidence is disclosed, which judges preside. Not corruption. Something more sophisticated: the systematic production of managed outcomes through the legitimate operations of every institution involved. No one breaks the rules. The rules have been designed to produce the results the programme requires. Elliot's career is the programme's product. His skill is real. His victories are genuine. And every one of them has been engineered. Now he must decide: expose the system that made him, or continue winning cases inside a machine he can no longer pretend not to see. But PALISADE was built by people who understand that secrets have shelf lives, and Elliot's resistance may be exactly what the programme needs to evolve from covert operation into a permanent, legitimate institution. The trap isn't that he's been caught. The trap is that catching him was never the goal. COMPLIANT is a literary legal thriller that operates at the intersection of John le Carre's institutional paranoia, Kafka's bureaucratic nightmare, and the philosophical complexity of writers like Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. It is a novel about a man who fights a system and discovers that fighting is the system's design, about the difference between exposure and accountability, between reform and absorption, between the justice that law promises and the justice that institutions permit. At its centre: a courtroom battle over a man prosecuted for continuing to exist after the state revoked the identity it created for him. Around it: a journalist whose expose is absorbed into the system's evolution. A handler whose therapeutic voice delivers devastating revelations. A judge whose independence and institutional integration are indistinguishable. And a relationship destroyed by the silence that protection requires. A novel for readers who believe thrillers can be philosophical, philosophy can be thrilling, and the most terrifying systems are the ones that work exactly as designed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The manifest said 172. He counted 173. Now the system that got it wrong wants him to believe he can't count. Captain Rohan Sena is the kind of pilot who checks everything twice. Pitot tubes by touch. Fuel state by hand. Passenger count, verified, filed, closed. When a bomb tears through the rear cabin of his Boeing 777 over Turkey, he lands the aircraft, saves 289 lives, and does what pilots do: follows procedure. Then the numbers stop adding up. One passenger over the manifest. A man in seat 38F, observed, served orange juice, independently documented by three crew members, who does not appear on any record. No boarding card. No biometric entry. No passport scan. No name. He was there. He cannot have been there. Both of these things are true. When Sena reports the discrepancy, he expects an investigation. What he gets is a psychologist asking if he's sure about what he saw. A commander who arrived from London before the manifests were reconciled. A Head of Safety who knows exactly which questions not to ask. An airline that would very much like its hero pilot to stop being so precise about the number of people on his aircraft. The deeper Sena looks, the worse it gets. The biometric scanner recorded 173, then someone with government-level access deleted the 173rd. A second flight, eight months earlier, shows the same anomaly. The same contractor appears in both. The same silence follows. The bomb isn't the story. The bomb is the accident that exposed the story. Nine people died on Meridian 471. Not because of a security failure, because two covert operations collided on the same aircraft, and the institutional response chose to protect the programme over the dead. Now the only threat to that programme is a pilot who trusts his eyes more than his instruments, a forensic psychologist who can tell the difference between assessing a patient and managing a narrative, and a cabin crew veteran with a screenshot the airline doesn't know she has. The system doesn't need to prove them wrong. It just needs to make being right more expensive than they can afford. "The prose operates at the level of serious literary fiction. The sentence architecture is extraordinary. The philosophical depth is genuine." From the author of Compliant, the Sykesverse returns with a standalone thriller about aviation, identity, and the terrifying question at the heart of modern security: What happens when a person exists in physical space but nowhere else? For readers of le Carre, Mick Herron, and anyone who has ever wondered whether the security systems we walk through every time we fly were designed to protect us, or to perform the appearance of protection. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He wins every case. That's the problem.Elliot Crane is the most successful criminal barrister of his generation. A 94% acquittal rate. Six years of cases that other advocates couldn't win. A reputation built on analytical brilliance honed at Oxford and operational discipline forged in Helmand Province. Then he finds the pattern. A statistical anomaly buried in his own case record, outcomes too consistent to be skill, too precise to be luck. Cases assigned through channels he never questioned. Evidence disclosed at timings he never examined. Judges whose rulings, individually defensible, are collectively impossible. The pattern has a name: PALISADE. A classified programme coordinating criminal trials across the British justice system, managing which cases reach which barristers, which evidence is disclosed, which judges preside. Not corruption. Something more sophisticated: the systematic production of managed outcomes through the legitimate operations of every institution involved. No one breaks the rules. The rules have been designed to produce the results the programme requires. Elliot's career is the programme's product. His skill is real. His victories are genuine. And every one of them has been engineered. Now he must decide: expose the system that made him, or continue winning cases inside a machine he can no longer pretend not to see. But PALISADE was built by people who understand that secrets have shelf lives, and Elliot's resistance may be exactly what the programme needs to evolve from covert operation into a permanent, legitimate institution. The trap isn't that he's been caught. The trap is that catching him was never the goal. COMPLIANT is a literary legal thriller that operates at the intersection of John le Carre's institutional paranoia, Kafka's bureaucratic nightmare, and the philosophical complexity of writers like Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. It is a novel about a man who fights a system and discovers that fighting is the system's design, about the difference between exposure and accountability, between reform and absorption, between the justice that law promises and the justice that institutions permit. At its centre: a courtroom battle over a man prosecuted for continuing to exist after the state revoked the identity it created for him. Around it: a journalist whose expose is absorbed into the system's evolution. A handler whose therapeutic voice delivers devastating revelations. A judge whose independence and institutional integration are indistinguishable. And a relationship destroyed by the silence that protection requires. A novel for readers who believe thrillers can be philosophical, philosophy can be thrilling, and the most terrifying systems are the ones that work exactly as designed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.