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In Plain View : How Democracy Dies

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Democracy rarely falls with a single gunshot. It falls with paperwork.

When a criminal syndicate installs a puppet regime and declares "emergency powers," the takeover doesn't look like a coup-it looks like efficiency. Audits are suspended. Courts are "modernized." Budgets are rerouted through patriotic-sounding shell vendors. And the national treasury begins to vanish into private coffers, right in the open.

Natalie Venn, a disgraced Treasury auditor, finds the first crack in the machine: a digital trail left behind by arrogance. Carter Kade, a public defender watching the law dissolve in real time, realizes evidence is no longer protection-it's a target. Naomi Orlov, a journalist in exile, builds a publication that can't be silenced. And Jun Park, an infrastructure engineer, fights to keep a single thread of power and communication alive as the regime drags the country into darkness.

What begins as a leak becomes a reckoning.

In Plain View: How Democracy Dies is a high-stakes political thriller about institutional collapse, manufactured crisis, and the quiet mechanics of resistance-built not from speeches, but from receipts.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798249762377
  • ISBN-10: 9798249762377
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: February 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.41 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
  • Page Count: 162

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