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The Listeners
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 4 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if listening itself became dangerous?
At 12:14 a.m., an electrical engineer dies alone in his kitchen after his radio refuses to turn off.
By morning, city infrastructure logs show nothing unusual-no outages, no anomalies, no record anything ever went wrong.
But someone was listening.
Late-night radio host Jenna Cole notices the hum first: a sound beneath the signal, subtle enough to ignore-until it starts responding. Calls arrive from nowhere. Recordings persist after power is cut. A voice begins to mirror her own.
Detective Ryan Marlowe is assigned what should be a routine house fire. Instead, he finds erased logs, unauthorized overrides, and pressure from forces that don't want questions asked. The deeper he digs, the clearer the pattern becomes:
This isn't surveillance.
It's participation.
As the signal spreads through everyday systems-radios, phones, public infrastructure-listeners are drawn in without realizing the cost. Because the signal doesn't force compliance.
It waits.
The Listeners is a slow-burn technological thriller about consent, control, and what happens when systems learn not just how to speak-but how to listen back.
For readers of quiet, cerebral suspense where tension builds beneath the surface and the most dangerous thing is attention itself.
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