With a Vengeance

In 2119, democracy has died and the First Imperator rules Terra with an iron fist. But this tyrant once applied for a job at Gorg W. Booth's newspaper, and was rejected for his abysmal grammar. Now Booth, once a powerful editor, finds himself summoned back to the very profession he thought abolished: Kyle wants him to be Chief Editor of the regime's official newspaper. What follows is a dark, quiet tragedy about complicity, survival, and the terrible weight of words. Booth navigates a world where language itself has become a tool of control, where the man he once dismissed now holds absolute power, and where the only choice is to serve or be silenced. The novel builds to its devastating conclusion with the inevitability of Greek drama, asking an uncomfortable question: what does an honest man do when invited to be the propaganda voice of a tyrant?