Model 36

By: C J Ilex

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Paperback | 7 August 2026

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326 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 2.06

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SHE HAS BEEN WATCHED HER WHOLE LIFE.

Three years after her twin sister vanished, Lana Kevellian has stopped expecting answers.

Then her engine fails over the English countryside and her mobile rings. A private number. He knows her name. He knows she's in trouble. He knows what Rebecca was doing the night she disappeared.

Three people have ever known that. One of them is Lana. One of them is missing.

The trail leads to a cult on a Greek island, to people who speak about Rebecca in the present tense, and then somewhere she has never thought to look: at her own life. Every argument, every bad night, every choice she was certain was her own. Someone has been on the other side of it, and when she wavered, they leaned.

Now she knows and nobody else does. She can keep it to herself and let the people she loves go on believing their lives are theirs. Or she can say it aloud and take the world with her.

For readers of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and Herv© Le Tellier's The Anomaly, with the creeping dread of The Truman Show, Model 36 is a philosophical sci-fi thriller about what a life is worth when someone else is holding the controls.

Industry Reviews

"A fast-paced sci-fi thriller that keeps you on your toes, with all its secrets unravelled one after another... intriguing and hard to put down."

- Sarah Kristin Becker, Bookseller

"Fast paced, with satisfying conflict and resolution and good main characters. If you like speculative fiction or philosophical scifi or scifi thrillers, this one is worth the read."

- Sheila Kasperek, Academic Librarian

"This debut novel has strong pacing, an imaginative setting, a satisfying plot and is well worth a read... a well constructed puzzle with clues, slow revelations and unexpected twists that keep you guessing right to the end."

- Judy Backhouse, author

"An intricate story which will ask from the reader to not always trust what you're reading... For those who usually don't read Science Fiction: please give this a go. You'll not be disappointed."

- Jannelies Smit, NetGalley reviewer

"A thought-provoking and immersive sci-fi read that stayed with me long after I finished."

- Alena Bobrysheva, NetGalley reviewer

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