Paperback. He knows what you're thinking before you do. He knows what you're afraid of before you feel it. What he doesn't know - what he has never been allowed to know - is himself.Ezra Boone can read minds. Not metaphorically. Not intuitively. Actually. Every room he enters becomes a chorus of exposed wants and buried fears, and he has spent his entire adult life weaponizing that knowledge - as an investigative journalist, as a covert vigilante known only as Eclipse, as a man who manages every human relationship with the precision of a surgeon and the distance of a ghost.He tells himself it makes him better at protecting people.He's lying. And somewhere beneath the noise of six million minds, he knows it.When a dead source leaves behind a single cryptic code word - ORACLE - Ezra begins pulling at a thread that unravels everything. What emerges from the dark is not the intelligence scandal he expected. It's something far more intimate, far more devastating: evidence that his powers were never a mutation. Never an accident. That decades before he was born, the program that would become the most powerful private intelligence organization in Europe had already chosen him. Designed him. Built into his neural architecture the very capacity for empathy he calls his conscience - not because they wanted to create a hero, but because they needed a weapon that wouldn't go feral.The villain waiting at the end of this investigation is silver-haired and genuinely warm, and he makes an argument Ezra cannot dismiss: You already do what I do. You just tell yourself a prettier story about it.He's not entirely wrong.Set across near-future Berlin, Cairo, Tokyo, and Paris, The Weight of Knowing is a psychological thriller that uses the architecture of the superhero genre to ask questions the genre almost never dares: What does it cost to know what other people are thinking - really, actually, constantly? What happens to a person who was built to be a weapon and raised to believe he was a man? And if your capacity for compassion was engineered into you as a safeguard, does that make it less real?This is not a story about saving the world. The world gets saved along the way, but that's almost incidental.This is a story about a man who discovers he cannot trust the source of his own convictions - and what he chooses to do with that knowledge in the dark, when no one is watching, when the armor he has worn his entire life finally comes off.If you've ever asked whether a manufactured conscience is still a conscience, this novel will not give you an easy answer. It will give you the only honest one.For readers of John le Carre's moral complexity, Max Barry's corporate-dystopia dread, and the psychological intimacy of literary superhero fiction at its most unsparing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titel: The Weight of Knowing (Paperback)
Verlag: Sean Benoit
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-13: 9798231211531
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: new

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He knows what you're thinking before you do. He knows what you're afraid of before you feel it. What he doesn't know - what he has never been allowed to know - is himself. Ezra Boone can read minds. Not metaphorically. Not intuitively. Actually. Every room he enters becomes a chorus of exposed wants and buried fears, and he has spent his entire adult life weaponizing that knowledge - as an investigative journalist, as a covert vigilante known only as Eclipse, as a man who manages every human relationship with the precision of a surgeon and the distance of a ghost. He tells himself it makes him better at protecting people. He's lying. And somewhere beneath the noise of six million minds, he knows it. When a dead source leaves behind a single cryptic code word - ORACLE - Ezra begins pulling at a thread that unravels everything. What emerges from the dark is not the intelligence scandal he expected. It's something far more intimate, far more devastating: evidence that his powers were never a mutation. Never an accident. That decades before he was born, the program that would become the most powerful private intelligence organization in Europe had already chosen him. Designed him. Built into his neural architecture the very capacity for empathy he calls his conscience - not because they wanted to create a hero, but because they needed a weapon that wouldn't go feral. The villain waiting at the end of this investigation is silver-haired and genuinely warm, and he makes an argument Ezra cannot dismiss: You already do what I do. You just tell yourself a prettier story about it. He's not entirely wrong. Set across near-future Berlin, Cairo, Tokyo, and Paris, The Weight of Knowing is a psychological thriller that uses the architecture of the superhero genre to ask questions the genre almost never dares: What does it cost to know what other people are thinking - really, actually, constantly? What happens to a person who was built to be a weapon and raised to believe he was a man? And if your capacity for compassion was engineered into you as a safeguard, does that make it less real? This is not a story about saving the world. The world gets saved along the way, but that's almost incidental. This is a story about a man who discovers he cannot trust the source of his own convictions - and what he chooses to do with that knowledge in the dark, when no one is watching, when the armor he has worn his entire life finally comes off. If you've ever asked whether a manufactured conscience is still a conscience, this novel will not give you an easy answer. It will give you the only honest one. For readers of John le Carr�'s moral complexity, Max Barry's corporate-dystopia dread, and the psychological intimacy of literary superhero fiction at its most unsparing.

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Sean Benoit, writing under the pen name S.B. Fates, is a masterful author specializing in the realm of dark fiction. His unique literary style seamlessly weaves together elements of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science fiction, and fantasy, creating stories that not only captivate but also challenge the conventional boundaries of these genres. His works are renowned for their complex narratives, richly developed characters, and the ability to transport readers into worlds where the mysterious and the ordinary intertwine. In addition to his literary pursuits, Sean harbors a deep passion for drawing and comic books, engaging in these activities as personal hobbies. This artistic inclination, while separate from his writing, enriches his creative perspective and contributes to the depth and imagination evident in his storytelling. Known as S.B. Fates in the literary world, Sean stands out for his ability to blend a diverse range of elements into his narratives, making him a distinctive voice in the genre of dark fiction. His dedication to exploring and redefining the limits of genre fiction has cemented his status as a notable author in his field.

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