{"product_id":"the-quiet-defection-adam-vale-9798180712394","title":"The Quiet Defection: How we leave our own lives without noticing, and the honest way back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author's real name is printed in every copy of this book. You just can't read it yet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's on the copyright page, encrypted. He holds the only key. One day it decrypts, and the world learns who quietly fell apart and came back. Until then, all you have is the confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost people don't blow up their lives.\u003c\/b\u003e They leave them quietly, one postponed Tuesday at a time, until they are being applauded for a life they no longer live inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Defection\u003c\/i\u003e is the confession of someone who spent years close to other people's money, watching careful people fund futures they were too absent to ever live in, and then catching himself doing exactly the same thing with his own one life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a system. It is not a cure. It does not promise you a better morning routine. It is a short, honest map of how a capable person disappears from their own life without ever deciding to, and the unglamorous way back. At the end of every part, it stops and asks where it might be lying to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who keep returning to books about time, attention, and the strange work of staying honestly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have everything you were supposed to want and still feel oddly absent from it, this book was written from inside that exact room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe chair is yours. It always was. Start reading.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180712394\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\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.34d","brand":"Adam Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173581529343,"sku":"9798180712394","price":13.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-quiet-defection-adam-vale-9798180712394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}