Truth And Code (Paperback)

Paperback. What if the world you were promised was a lie-perfectly engineered, flawlessly controlled, and fundamentally incomplete?For more than a century, humanity has lived inside SO-Land, a closed civilization governed by artificial intelligence, optimized for safety, stability, and efficiency. War is gone. Scarcity is gone. Freedom-quietly-has gone with it.Han Tan, the brilliant and reclusive founder of Han Tech, helped build the very systems that protect SO-Land. But when a mysterious data artifact surfaces-one that should not exist, one that speaks from outside the system-Han uncovers a truth that fractures everything he believes about his world, his work, and himself.As encoded messages begin arriving from an unknown place called FreeLand, Han realizes the impossible: SO-Land is not the only human civilization left on Earth.What begins as a technical anomaly becomes a personal reckoning. When Han's loyalty to the system collides with loss, grief, and moral awakening, he is forced into a desperate flight across a surveillance state that knows him better than he knows himself. Hunted by the very intelligence he helped create, betrayed by power, and sustained only by a handful of unlikely allies, Han must decide whether freedom-real freedom-is worth the cost.Truth & Code is a gripping speculative thriller that blends hard technology, geopolitical intrigue, and deeply human emotion. It explores timeless questions at the heart of our modern age: Is safety worth the surrender of truth?Can freedom exist without risk?And what happens when the machines designed to protect us decide we are the threat?At once intimate and epic, Truth & Code is a story about grief, courage, rebellion, and the fragile, stubborn will to choose freedom-even when the future is unknown. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…