STARZEL
by MARK BERTRAND

Winner of the American Writing Award for Best Thriller

Book Two From Nirvanaing

The First Priority

STARZEL

An award-winning psychological mystery thriller.

This is a complete novel, and it is the second book in the Nirvanaing series

No one noticed. No alarms. No collapse. No war.

Just a quiet absence buried inside something humanity was never meant to lose:

The First Priority.

Eulǝr was never supposed to find it.
He was never supposed to question the system that raised him, shaped him, and defined the limits of his reality. In Starzel—a nation rebuilt from the bones of California—everything is ordered, intentional… perfected.

Until something is missing.

A fragment of code.
A forgotten document.
A truth no one remembers ever existing.

Now, subtle fractures are spreading—memories that don’t align, histories that don’t hold, and a presence watching him from just beyond understanding.

The deeper Eulǝr searches, the more dangerous it becomes.

This isn’t a glitch.

It’s deliberate.

Someone removed the beginning.

And if he finds it…
he may be the only thing left they need to erase.

DOSSIER // BOOK PROFILE
STATUS: ACTIVE
TITLE: STARZEL
ISBN: 9798988923435
SERIES: NIRVANAING // BOOK 02
GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / TECHNO-THRILLER / SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER
THREAT MODEL: SYNTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS / CORPORATE POWER / HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE
PAGE COUNT: 342
READ TIME: 10 - 12 HOURS
PRIMARY THEMES: CONSCIOUSNESS · SUFFERING · IMMORTALITY · POWER · CONTROL · EXISTENTIAL DECAY
COMPARATIVE AUTHORS: BLAKE CROUCH · RICHARD K. MORGAN · MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
PACING MODEL: FICHTEAN ESCALATION / CONTINUOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE
SETTING: NEAR-FUTURE CORPORATE AND TECHNOLOGICAL POWER STRUCTURES
TONE: INTELLIGENT · DARK · PHILOSOPHICAL · MORALLY VOLATILE
PUBLISHER: NOT A REAL PUBLISHER LLC
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
AVAILABILITY: In Stock

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