{"product_id":"the-second-witness-a-thriller-9798298902298","title":"The Second Witness: A Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Scott P. Hicks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Technological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen EMT Callie Rhodes pockets a black thumb drive handed to her by a dying man, she expects paperwork and an unanswered question. What she finds instead are stitched-together surveillance clips, a woman who moves like Callie and yet is not, and a quiet machinery that edits memory and erases names. Someone is watching the edges of her life-and they are careful, practiced, and willing to remove anything that gets too close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pulse-quickening thriller about identity, memory, and the cost of seeing what others hide.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eCallie is a working responder with a steady hand and a stubborn sense of duty; when a dead man passes her a drive, she chooses to look. That choice pulls open a city's secret net of footage, false flags, and disappearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe footage shows a woman who knows Callie's face, then refuses to be captured cleanly. Childhood reflections in a kitchen mirror and clips time-stamped for days yet to come force Callie to ask: is this a twin, a frame, or a frame-up?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllies and dangers blur: Detective Morano's questions arrive with polite pressure, Ben hacks at the edges of the net, and Ellis the archivist keeps film that remembers what people want to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eTight, atmospheric scenes-hotel chaos, rain-slicked streets, a break-in that smells of hospital antiseptic-build to a conspiracy that treats identity like evidence you can refile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who love lean, cinematic suspense with a strong, fiercely human heroine and surprises that land like a slap-\u003cb\u003eThe Second Witness\u003c\/b\u003e is a dark, propulsive novel about how a single image can unmake a life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594684154007,"sku":"9798298902298","price":1265.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798298902298.webp?v=1774986793","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-second-witness-a-thriller-9798298902298","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}