The Bitter Taste of Truth

von A. T. Condor

332 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

She tastes lies. He is drowning in them.In a decaying city ruled by the corporate behemoth Mercer Holdings, Maren lives a life of calculated isolation. Blessed and cursed with a rare form of synesthesia, Maren tastes deception as a sharp, metallic rot on her tongue. For years, she has hidden her ability in the quiet depths of the city archives, desperately avoiding the dark shadows of her past and the dangerous secrets her family buried.Burke is a ghost of the 12th Precinct. A disgraced, battle-worn detective stripped of his badge and left for dead by the very system he swore to protect, Burke is consumed by a relentless obsession to clear his name.When a desperate heist uncovers a damning vault of offshore corruption, Burke needs a civilian key to unlock the truth, and Maren is the only one who can't be fooled.Thrown together into a brutal underworld of corrupt judges, ruthless enforcers, and rain-slicked alleys, Maren and Burke must navigate a city where every word is a potential death sentence. But as the conspiracy closes in and the physical toll mounts, they discover something even more dangerous than the machine they are fighting: absolute, unvarnished truth.They thought they were just surviving a conspiracy. They were about to burn it to the ground.From the depths of the underground vaults to a brand-new beginning in the garment district, step into a gritty, character-driven noir thriller packed with razor-sharp sensory details, high-stakes tension, and a redemption arc that proves the only way out of the dark is together.The machine is broken. The door is unlocked.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176335231
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published