{"product_id":"form-tr-9-john-bailey-9798182483384","title":"Form TR-9","description":"The Aurigan Directorate of Strategic Review has discovered a pattern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEight operational failures. Six worlds. Multiple investigations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of them all are two names. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCedric Pritchard and Lionel Welles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe evidence appears overwhelming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA transit complaint filed at the wrong place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compliance certification noticed by the wrong person. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA baggage-routing form submitted with suspicious precision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaken individually, each incident is insignificant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaken together, they suggest a sophisticated Anglo intelligence operation operating deep inside Aurigan space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs analysts, auditors, investigators, and surveillance teams mobilize to uncover the truth, the case grows larger, stranger, and more important with every report. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is only one problem.\u003cbr\u003ePritchard is a retired transit administrator.\u003cbr\u003eWelles is a retired procurement specialist with unusually strong opinions about tea.\u003cbr\u003eNeither man has the slightest idea they are under investigation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold almost entirely from the perspective of the officials trying to solve a mystery that does not exist, \u003ci\u003eForm TR-9\u003c\/i\u003e is a dryly comic science-fiction novel about bureaucracy, intelligence analysis, institutional incentives, and the extraordinary consequences that can emerge when ordinary facts are viewed from the wrong angle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers who enjoy the wit of British administrative satire, the procedural detail of classic espionage fiction, and science fiction that explores systems as much as technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798182483384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"John Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173860712703,"sku":"9798182483384","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/form-tr-9-john-bailey-9798182483384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}