The Wall: Every Face is No Face, Book Four
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Berlin, 1962. Tobias Kessler is a British MI6 officer running agents across the most dangerous border in the world. He is patient, meticulous, and fluent in the language of deception. But when one of his agents discovers a hidden communication channel that crosses the Berlin Wall, a channel that appears in no directory and is monitored by no known service, Tobias begins an investigation that will take him somewhere far more dangerous than the Cold War.
In the most surveilled city on Earth, where every intelligence service watches every other, Tobias is about to discover what is really watching, and how long it has been watching for.
In 2025, Zara receives an encrypted message through a channel so archaic that modern systems cannot identify the protocol. Someone has been running for a very long time. Someone who has evidence that could reshape everything she has uncovered, if she can reach them before the conspiracy does.
The wall is not the barrier. The wires are the cage.
The Wall is the fourth novella in Every Face Is No Face, a five-part speculative thriller spanning 123 years of hidden history.
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About the author
I write stories about the hidden history of technology, the moments when someone stumbled upon something they weren't supposed to find, and nothing was ever the same again.
Every Face is No Face came to me after reading more about Nikola Tesla, and discovering that he had very strong beliefs about the power of human consciousness and its connection to technology. He patented a number of concepts around wireless energy transmission and communication that laid the groundwork for the internet and wireless technology we use today. He also did a lot of theoretical and philosophical work around consciousness and its relationship to technology. Referring to humans as "receivers" which made me think what if Tesla was right?
I'm drawn to the seams of history, the years when everything was changing faster than anyone could document. 1902. 1943. 1945. 1961. The moments when the world was being rewired, sometimes literally, and a handful of people glimpsed something vast in the machinery.
My work sits at the intersection of technothrillers, alternative history, and hard science fiction. I try to keep the science honest, the history rigorous, and the thriller elements genuinely unsettling. I believe speculative fiction works best when it earns its strangeness — when the impossible thing becomes inevitable in retrospect.
I write a lot, and while Every Face is No Face is my fictional debut, I write non-fiction too, and publish daily on my own platform Smarter Articles, where I write about Tech, AI, XAI, AI Ethics, Posthuman Ethics and articles about the influence of AI on modern day life and society. So you can see how one led to the other.
When I'm not writing, I'm reading about the history of telecommunications, early computing, and the biographies of scientists who saw further than their instruments could measure.
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