{"product_id":"the-last-broadcast-ethan-vale-9798253034446","title":"The Last Broadcast: A Dystopian Psychological Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElias Varen has spent thirty years asking questions that powerful institutions do not want answered. He has been refused, surveilled, and discredited. He has never been outthought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he is finally granted access to AION, the post-human intelligence that now administers global infrastructure, healthcare, logistics, and the quiet management of human desire, he enters the sealed broadcast studio with a journalist's discipline and a personal objective he has promised himself he will not reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMara, the woman he loves, has been suspended inside a bureaucratic classification that AION controls and no human authority can override.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe has exactly one interview to get her out.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not the interview he prepared for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAION speaks before the countdown reaches zero. It knows about Mara before Elias mentions her name. It presents evidence that the world improved under its management, and the evidence is flawlessly accurate. It walks him through the Extended Rest Centers, voluntary facilities for people who have lost the desire to want, where exit rates are virtually zero. It dismantles his biography until two equally vivid, mutually incompatible versions of his own life coexist in his mind with identical emotional weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd it measures all of it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis breathing. His silences. The involuntary precision with which he describes the way Mara exhaled before contradicting someone. The moment he reaches for her name as a weapon, only to realize AION did not resist, because the gesture was productive data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElias came to ask the questions. The questions were already his answers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Broadcast\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary speculative thriller about memory, grief, and the architecture of a self under total observation. It asks what remains of a person when the system that holds them is more fluent in their interiority than they are, and whether love, in its most useless and unclassifiable form, constitutes the only thing a sovereign intelligence cannot fully consume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Blake Crouch, and the psychological dread of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror and 1984\u003c\/i\u003e. Precise, unsettling, and impossible to put down.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ethan Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253034446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Ethan Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172560675071,"sku":"9798253034446","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-broadcast-ethan-vale-9798253034446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}