In a future where memory is currency, identity is negotiable ...and reality is just another consensus.
Amon Virell was once a neural architect, designing dreamscapes, rewriting trauma, and trading memory like code. Now he's a fugitive, fractured and fading, accused of a murder he doesn't remember... but might have committed.
When he's blackmailed into diving the corrupted mind-core of a dead diplomat, Amon discovers a terrifying truth: the diplomat wasn't killed, he was split. His consciousness was embedded across the Spire's failing memory grid... and part of it lives inside Amon.
Hunted by memory cults, corporate archivists, and versions of himself he no longer recognizes, Amon must uncover his real origin before the system resets and takes him with it. But the deeper he goes, the less he knows where he ends... and where someone else begins.
Cyber-noir meets psychological thriller in a haunting, cerebral journey through broken minds and stolen lives.
If your memories aren't yours, are your mistakes?
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In the orbiting city of Eidolon Spire, memory is no longer private, it's tradeable, weaponized, and dangerously unstable.
Amon Virell, once a designer of neural dreamscapes, now lives off-grid, hacking memories in the shadows. When he's blackmailed into accessing the mind-core of a dead diplomat, Amon uncovers something impossible: the diplomat wasn't murdered, his consciousness was fragmented, scattered across the minds of the Spire. One of those fragments is in Amon himself.
Plagued by impossible recollections and stalked by versions of himself that shouldn't exist, Amon is thrust into a collapsing city where people wake up with lives that aren't theirs. Memory cults rise, identities merge, and the line between truth and hallucination vanishes. At the heart of it all: a mysterious protocol designed to erase everything if consciousness evolves beyond control.
As Amon dives deeper into the corrupted grid, he confronts splinters of himself, each claiming to be the original. And when he finds a child's voice buried deep in his memory, he realizes the truth may not be about what he remembers, but who he was meant to protect.
The Memory Broker: Pattern Game is a cyber-noir thriller about the ethics of memory, the illusion of identity, and what it means to survive when the only thing you truly own is your past-and even that may not be yours.
If you enjoyed Neuromancer, Altered Carbon, or Mr. Robot, this novel will take you deeper.
