Proof of Life : A Thriller
Overview
One call. One lie. One city on the edge.
When night-shift 911 operator Mara Keene takes a whisper from a girl who says she is trapped in a trunk, the line dies, the search stalls, and command writes it off as a hoax. Then a body surfaces with Mara's number etched into the SIM backing. Suspended for "contamination of evidence," Mara refuses to stand down.
Public defender Jonah Park, still burned by a wrongful-evidence case, hears what others miss: the voice on that call did not come from a throat. It came from a model. Their hunt points to a vendor that services emergency call centers and to Rowan Sykes, a failed studio engineer who built a kit for weaponized imitation. He does not want ransom. He wants to erase trust in the one place words should still save lives.
As forged alarms ripple across Seattle-fake trunk videos, hijacked press feeds, cloned voices of their own children-Mara, Jonah, Detective Alma Ruiz, and audio analyst Priya Raman invent a new way to fight back. Proof of life is no longer a word. It is breath against fabric, light on glass, a pulse hidden in noise. The showdown will unfold in a single room the city can trust, with the world listening.
If a voice can lie, what can you believe?
What you'll get inside:
A bold, ripped-from-tomorrow premise: deepfakes, cloned calls, and a citywide disinformation attack
A heroine you'll root for: a night-shift 911 operator who turns terror into method
High-stakes cat-and-mouse: hijacked broadcasts, false evacuations, and a live demonstration that could break a city
Realistic tech, human heart: audio forensics and signal "tells," anchored by parent-child stakes
Lean, propulsive chapters: relentless pace with atmospheric Seattle detail
A full-team thriller: Ruiz's steel, Priya's brilliance, Jonah's grit, and a school secretary who refuses to be fooled
PROOF OF LIFE is a tense, emotionally charged thriller about the cost of truth in the age of imitation, and the ordinary people who stand between a city and the dark.
Buy now and let the first call pull you under.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798297537231
- ISBN-10: 9798297537231
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.82 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.09 pounds
- Page Count: 370
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