Length5h 39m
About this audiobook
A disabled veteran loses everything after one accusation detonates his life. But when Jack Mercer builds Lantern to preserve the sequence of what really happened, he discovers his case is only one piece of a much darker machine.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Psychology
Length5 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Silver Bullet
75remains.”
2Chapter 1: The Wrong Initial
76custody.”
3printer.”
77Chapter 21: The List That Should Not Exist
4to the assembly this afternoon?”
78the envelope.
5in wet cement.
79between him and it.
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6Chapter 2: School Pickup
80with the whole thing.”
7Chapter 3: Risk Language
81Chapter 22: Circle Of Wounds
8nine times.
82Fear. A memory network with hands.
9three headings: KNOWN, ASSUMED, FEARED.
83stopped with her palm over it.
10annex involvement. Language packet. Some connection to yesterday’s argument.
84Chapter 23: Echoes
11Chapter 4: The Recanting Witness
85with a handwritten note on the back:
12“Come by after dinner.”
86review in quarantine.
13pair of hands around it.
87under glass.
14creases.
88Chapter 24: The Voice In The Map
15Chapter 5: The Veteran Who Hung Up
89Harlan Pike’s Echo group:
16mistake.
90Testimony, Incomplete Narratives, and Archive.
17reminders.”
91Chapter 25: Before Jack
18protective ambiguity.”
92a performance expectation.
19Chapter 6: The Signature
93Chapter 26: Exhibit A: Jack Mercer
20the office.”
94cruel.
21passenger window.
95Different hand. Same survival instinct.
22Chapter 7: The Version At Home
96copies.”
23both hands still on the wheel.
97Minimize burden. Verify consent before follow-up.
24school.”
98Chapter 27: The Helpful Lie
25Chapter 8: One Clean Story
99own hearing.’”
26too?”
100away from him.
27On page two of the packet, under Guidance for Concerned
101Chapter 28: Christina Awake
28source.”
102preserve.
29Chapter 9: Vanishing Record
103rude to a boundary.
30v7.pdf”
104Chapter 29: Decades
31Chapter 10: The Door
105FAMILY MEMORY UNSTABLE / DO NOT ROUTE
32normal channels.
106printout.
33Chapter 11: Three Systems
107thing.
34again.
108escalation
35teeth.
109Chapter 30: The Buried Word
36impact.”
110yet answer.
37Chapter 12: The Place He Wasn’t
111later: living-risk assumption.
38all.
112sheet.”
39breath.
113Chapter 31: The Lighthouse File
40procedural.
114PRECURSOR SET
41access, maintenance ping, or manual entry.”
115unknown.”
42evidence language. Not accusation. Not Jack’s voice. Just:
116Chapter 32: Timing Loses
43a warning flare.
117into public pressure against vulnerable widows, clerks, and child- facing professionals.
44Chapter 13: Two True Witnesses
118Denise’s office.”
45window.
119spoke.
46spoke for a long time.
120battleground.”
47about rigid memory claims.
121Chapter 33: Contradiction As Proof
48anonymous.”
122from different doors.”
49Chapter 14: The Dead Man’s Phrase
123fragment to the public chain:
50names.
124Chapter 34: The Visible Hand
51form.”
125Prove.
52side.”
126Chapter 35: What Lantern Is For
53something with better posture.”
127blindness.
54Chapter 15: Lantern Files Paperwork
128operations.”
55case.”
129Chapter 36: Both Wound And Warning
56Chapter 16: Leverage
130occupy the center of wounded rooms.
57Lantern.
131satisfy anger.
58theft.
132a name.
59stabilization.
133Chapter 37: Restoration
60Chapter 17: Evelyn Blackwood
134background.”
61no visible satisfaction.
135after ten p.m.”
62impact.”
136Chapter 38: The Right People
63Community concern. Protective ambiguity. Family support. Review. Restoration.
137withdrawn.
64Chapter 18: Stabilization Pathway
138ordinary refusal of blindness.
65impolite.
139Chapter 39: Scar Tissue
66receipt.
140room like one more witness, late and necessary.
67the top.
141Chapter 40: The Null
68Chapter 19: Record Shelter
142basement.
69review.
143wrong initial.
70event, packet contamination, composite truth.
144church basement.
71language.
145intake note himself:
72Chapter 20: Not Ghosts
146About the Author
73softly at a rejected dollar.
147About The Lantern Protocol Case Files
74shift.
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