Backstage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798250084482)

Do you think your vote actually matters?

Think again.

It's not "the will of the people" running the show-it's an algorithm.

Nick was the star poli-sci student who still believed in the "analog circuit breakers" of democracy. He defended the Electoral College as the last firewall against mob chaos. But when he steps onto a private island where the global elite gather in secret, theory turns into blood-soaked practice.

Here, amid obscene luxury and digital sterility, Nick discovers the ugly truth: modern politics isn't a clash of ideas-it's a closed-circuit aquarium. Transparency isn't honesty here; it's the complete absence of a private life. "Safety" isn't protection-it's total control. And citizens? They're just pixels in the game the island's "gods" play, manipulating reality with AI and razor-sharp cynicism.

When Nick is turned into the system's chief "narrative architect," he realizes he's built his own prison. He's no longer a spectator-he's prey in the final spectacle, his death live-streamed between cat videos and bikini ads.

"Backstage" is intellectual horror that dissects the machinery of power.

It's a mirror you're afraid to look into-because what you see isn't a citizen.

It's an inhabitant of a glass cage whose life is worth no more than a number on a tablet screen.

Are you ready to find out who really holds the remote to your world?


Author: Ivan Kushnir
ISBN-13: 9798250084482
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2026
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d