The Neural Verdict (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Vaarun Malik, 2026
Série : Livre 1 sur 4 - THE NEURAL AGE
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Paperback. The Neural Verdict - Novel DescriptionIn a near-future world, the justice system no longer depends on witnesses, confessions, or circumstantial evidence. Courts can now analyze the involuntary neurological signal produced by a human brain at the exact moment of trauma, fear, or deception. The system is faster than traditional justice-and almost impossible to challenge.For brilliant defense attorney Mara Vey, that certainty becomes a nightmare.Her client, Daniel Cross, is accused of murdering billionaire biotech magnate Adrian Vale. There is no weapon, no reliable eyewitness, and almost no conventional evidence. But the court has something it considers stronger: a neurological recording taken from Vale's brain at the moment of his death. The signal appears to identify Daniel as the killer.Mara knows something is wrong.Then the impossible happens.Hidden inside Vale's final neurological recording is another signal-one carrying Mara's own neural signature. Worse, the signal appears to have been recorded before Vale died.Soon Mara begins hearing a strange sequence of tones inside her own head. Then come fragments of memories she cannot explain, voices she does not remember hearing, and images of events that have not yet happened.The court's supposedly perfect technology has begun producing evidence of the future.As Mara investigates, she discovers that the mystery reaches far beyond one murder. A secret network has been experimenting with human memory, neurological responses, and future-signal patterns for years. Patients have disappeared. Records have been altered. Memories have been manufactured. People have been convicted using evidence their own brains may have been manipulated to create.The deeper Mara goes, the more disturbing the truth becomes.Her missing memories are connected to an abandoned medical facility. Daniel remembers seeing her there years before they officially met. Dr. Yselle Ardan knows something about a hidden experiment. Adrian Vale left a recording warning Mara that the neurological evidence against her is real-but that its meaning is a lie. And somewhere beneath the official court system is a buried network that has been studying the same phenomenon for decades.Mara eventually discovers that she herself was once part of the experiment.Her nervous system can do something no one else's can reliably reproduce: it can hold contradictory possible futures without immediately accepting one as truth.That makes her more than a lawyer.It makes her the most valuable piece of evidence in the system.As predicted murders begin appearing before they happen, Mara is forced into a race against a technology that can use fear to influence behavior, memory to reshape evidence, and prediction to make its own future come true.The greatest danger is not that the machine can predict a crime.It is that people will believe the prediction-and act according to it.Now Mara must uncover the original experiment, find the people who have been controlling the system from the shadows, and learn why her own forgotten past is at the center of it all.Because before she can prove the system is wrong, she must answer the most frightening question of her life: What if the evidence inside her own brain is telling the truth? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 9798235766556
- Titre
- The Neural Verdict (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Aurel Varnier
- Éditeur
- Vaarun Malik
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798235766556
- Série
- Livre 1 sur 4: THE NEURAL AGE
The Neural Verdict - Novel Description
In a near-future world, the justice system no longer depends on witnesses, confessions, or circumstantial evidence. Courts can now analyze the involuntary neurological signal produced by a human brain at the exact moment of trauma, fear, or deception. The system is faster than traditional justice-and almost impossible to challenge.
For brilliant defense attorney Mara Vey, that certainty becomes a nightmare.
Her client, Daniel Cross, is accused of murdering billionaire biotech magnate Adrian Vale. There is no weapon, no reliable eyewitness, and almost no conventional evidence. But the court has something it considers stronger: a neurological recording taken from Vale's brain at the moment of his death. The signal appears to identify Daniel as the killer.
Mara knows something is wrong.
Then the impossible happens.
Hidden inside Vale's final neurological recording is another signal-one carrying Mara's own neural signature. Worse, the signal appears to have been recorded before Vale died.
Soon Mara begins hearing a strange sequence of tones inside her own head. Then come fragments of memories she cannot explain, voices she does not remember hearing, and images of events that have not yet happened.
The court's supposedly perfect technology has begun producing evidence of the future.
As Mara investigates, she discovers that the mystery reaches far beyond one murder. A secret network has been experimenting with human memory, neurological responses, and future-signal patterns for years. Patients have disappeared. Records have been altered. Memories have been manufactured. People have been convicted using evidence their own brains may have been manipulated to create.
The deeper Mara goes, the more disturbing the truth becomes.
Her missing memories are connected to an abandoned medical facility. Daniel remembers seeing her there years before they officially met. Dr. Yselle Ardan knows something about a hidden experiment. Adrian Vale left a recording warning Mara that the neurological evidence against her is real-but that its meaning is a lie. And somewhere beneath the official court system is a buried network that has been studying the same phenomenon for decades.
Mara eventually discovers that she herself was once part of the experiment.
Her nervous system can do something no one else's can reliably reproduce: it can hold contradictory possible futures without immediately accepting one as truth.
That makes her more than a lawyer.
It makes her the most valuable piece of evidence in the system.
As predicted murders begin appearing before they happen, Mara is forced into a race against a technology that can use fear to influence behavior, memory to reshape evidence, and prediction to make its own future come true.
The greatest danger is not that the machine can predict a crime.
It is that people will believe the prediction-and act according to it.
Now Mara must uncover the original experiment, find the people who have been controlling the system from the shadows, and learn why her own forgotten past is at the center of it all.
Because before she can prove the system is wrong, she must answer the most frightening question of her life:
What if the evidence inside her own brain is telling the truth?
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