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The Listeners

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Overview

What if listening itself became dangerous?

At 12:14 a.m., an electrical engineer dies alone in his kitchen after his radio refuses to turn off.

By morning, city infrastructure logs show nothing unusual-no outages, no anomalies, no record anything ever went wrong.

But someone was listening.

Late-night radio host Jenna Cole notices the hum first: a sound beneath the signal, subtle enough to ignore-until it starts responding. Calls arrive from nowhere. Recordings persist after power is cut. A voice begins to mirror her own.

Detective Ryan Marlowe is assigned what should be a routine house fire. Instead, he finds erased logs, unauthorized overrides, and pressure from forces that don't want questions asked. The deeper he digs, the clearer the pattern becomes:

This isn't surveillance.
It's participation.

As the signal spreads through everyday systems-radios, phones, public infrastructure-listeners are drawn in without realizing the cost. Because the signal doesn't force compliance.

It waits.

The Listeners is a slow-burn technological thriller about consent, control, and what happens when systems learn not just how to speak-but how to listen back.

For readers of quiet, cerebral suspense where tension builds beneath the surface and the most dangerous thing is attention itself.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798246974339
  • ISBN-10: 9798246974339
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: February 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
  • Page Count: 222

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