The Scam

Name: The Scam
Brand: Michelle Jones
Price: 44.75 AUD

By: Michelle Jones

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Paperback | 11 April 2026

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264 Pages

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History is the ultimate currency. And someone just counterfeited it.

THE SCAM:
In the high-altitude Alpine village of Sanctuarium, life is perfect. For generations, the "Chosen" children have inherited the communal wealth of a long-dead benefactor. But forensic auditor Lukas Varga has just found a chemical impossibility: a 19th-century treaty written in a synthetic polymer invented in 2012. The village isn't a paradise-it's a data farm. The inheritance isn't money-it's a neural harvest.

THE CONSPIRACY:
From the titanium vaults of Zurich to the "Romance Rehab" clinics of the Alps, the Von Vane Stiftung is rewriting the past to own the future. By faking history, they've claimed sovereign immunity from the law. By harvesting the "biometric signatures" of heartbreak and hope, they are training an AI to predict and manipulate the global subconscious.

THE OUTCASTS:
Lukas Varga, a man who trusts only molecules; Elsa, his sister, a restorative artist whose memories are being systematically "optimized"; and Matteo Belmonte, a smooth-talking fixer playing a deadly game of bureaucratic chicken with the world's most powerful Matriarch.

THE TRUTH:
As the "Scorched Earth" protocol is activated, Lukas and Elsa must race to expose the chemical lie before they are "de-listed" from existence. But in a world where the ink is a code and your mind is an archive, how do you save the truth when you can no longer trust your own memories?

Experience the pulse-pounding thriller where The Da Vinci Code meets Black Mirror.

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