{"product_id":"in-plain-view-michelle-hoffmann-9798249762377","title":"In Plain View: How Democracy Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003eDemocracy rarely falls with a single gunshot. It falls with paperwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a criminal syndicate installs a puppet regime and declares \"emergency powers,\" the takeover doesn't look like a coup-it looks like efficiency. Audits are suspended. Courts are \"modernized.\" Budgets are rerouted through patriotic-sounding shell vendors. And the national treasury begins to vanish into private coffers, right in the open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Venn, a disgraced Treasury auditor, finds the first crack in the machine: a digital trail left behind by arrogance. Carter Kade, a public defender watching the law dissolve in real time, realizes evidence is no longer protection-it's a target. Naomi Orlov, a journalist in exile, builds a publication that can't be silenced. And Jun Park, an infrastructure engineer, fights to keep a single thread of power and communication alive as the regime drags the country into darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a leak becomes a reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Plain View: How Democracy Dies\u003c\/b\u003e is a high-stakes political thriller about institutional collapse, manufactured crisis, and the quiet mechanics of resistance-built not from speeches, but from receipts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Hoffmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798249762377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Michelle Hoffmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997500846335,"sku":"9798249762377","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-plain-view-michelle-hoffmann-9798249762377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}