{"product_id":"contamination-how-an-anomaly-becomes-a-weapon-9798241168740","title":"Contamination: How an Anomaly Becomes a Weapon","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ariel Ives\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Action \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContamination\u003c\/i\u003e is a procedural thriller about what happens \u003cb\u003eafter\u003c\/b\u003e an anomaly is seen-and how truth is broken long before it is disproven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a commercial pilot recounts a decades-old encounter with an unexplained object pacing his aircraft, the sighting itself is not what changes his life. The change begins when records appear that should not exist, identities blur by design, and ordinary bureaucratic artifacts are turned into weapons. A single observation triggers a chain reaction: online amplification, strategic leaks, intimidation without fingerprints, and a systematic effort to erode credibility through doubt rather than denial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the pilot follows the trail behind a mysterious aviation report, he discovers that the real adversary is not the unknown in the sky, but the human systems that manage attention, reputation, and fear. Forums become sensor arrays. Documents become cutouts. Silence and disclosure are both traps. Every move is anticipated, framed, and redirected by actors who understand that contamination spreads faster than evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with clinical restraint and grounded in realistic procedures-aviation protocols, media dynamics, and intelligence tradecraft-\u003ci\u003eContamination\u003c\/i\u003e explores how modern power operates in the open: not by hiding information, but by flooding it with ambiguity. The novel asks a precise question with unsettling implications: in an age of records, surveillance, and virality, \u003cb\u003ehow do you prove something true when truth itself can be made toxic?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a thriller for readers who value method over myth, uncertainty over spectacle, and the uneasy space where observation becomes a liability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592869953687,"sku":"9798241168740","price":1249.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798241168740.webp?v=1774979676","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contamination-how-an-anomaly-becomes-a-weapon-9798241168740","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}