Chasing his own shadow

The badge is supposed to protect the truth. For Detective Marcus Vance, it's a tool to bury it. During a rain-drenched midnight countdown, a targeted police operation fractures into pieces. A single, fatal gunshot from Marcus's unregistered weapon leaves a criminal courier dead in a dark alleyway—and a bag filled with millions in syndicate cash missing. By morning, Marcus is assigned as the lead detective on the very homicide he committed. To survive the internal pressure, Marcus frames Elias Rook, a disposable scapegoat from the city's underbelly, weaving a flawless web of digital and physical fabrications. But as the precinct servers swallow his lies, a chilling whisper on an unsecure line changes the parameters of the game. An unknown puppet master from the shadows has witnessed it all, holding the physical piece of evidence that can destroy him. Trapped between the clinical eyes of the law and the invisible vice of blackmail, Marcus realizes that the most dangerous part of his crime wasn't the murder itself, but how easily the world accepted his narrative. He isn't a survivor who outmaneuvered the system; he is a puppet owned by the shadows—and his life sentence has just begun. This audiobook is AI-assisted. The text has been translated and co-authored with the assistance of AI, and the audio features an AI-generated narrator voice.

© 2026 Mr Monsteri (오디오북): 9789527685525

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