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Historical thriller · Vol. I · The War That Went Unseen diptych
The war that isn’t fought on the battlefield
There was no opening shot. No proclamation. Just a minor rounding in a ledger at the Cádiz Consulate, a shipment that waited exactly as long as it needed to, and a man who learned to read consequences before they became visible.
Alonso de Rivas is not a soldier. He is a custodian: of papers that don’t belong to him, of silences that sustain decisions that others will make on another continent without knowing that someone here already made them possible. The Price of Silence is the first volume of the diptych The War That Went Unseen: a historical thriller set in 18th-century Cádiz where the antagonist has no face. It is the system. And the system doesn’t act: it operates.
The tension doesn’t come from visible danger. It comes from what sustains it when no one is watching.
Genre Historical thriller · Full-length novel
Series The War That Went Unseen diptych · Vol. I
Comparable titles The Name of the Rose · The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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