Puppet State (Truth Wars, #5)

After the fall of a brutal regime, the world celebrates what appears to be a hard-earned revolution. The streets are filled with chants of freedom, the media glorifies the "new era," and the international community hails the rise of democracy. But beneath the confetti and speeches lies something far more sinister.
Daniel Myles, a human rights advocate and former professor, begins to see the cracks. He notices the patterns—scripted interviews, vanishing dissidents, state surveillance intensifying under the guise of national security. As journalists turn into mouthpieces and opposition becomes strangely compliant, Daniel uncovers the unthinkable: the revolution was orchestrated, not by the people, but by unseen actors with hidden agendas. What was once promised as liberation is now a calculated illusion—one designed to install a puppet government controlled by a shadow network of foreign influence, espionage, and internal corruption.
Labeled a threat to national unity, Daniel becomes the target of a coordinated disinformation campaign, hunted by the surveillance state he once trusted. With the walls closing in and civil unrest rising, he must navigate a world of thought crimes, censorship, and political betrayal to expose the truth. Along the way, he's joined by a disillusioned journalist and a rogue intelligence officer—each risking everything to dismantle a system that rewrites reality through information warfare.
Puppet State is a gripping political thriller that explores the chilling mechanisms of modern control: the soft tyranny of manufactured consent, the seductive power of propaganda, and the terrifying price of resisting the narrative. In a world where truth is treason, one man's escape from power becomes a war for the soul of a nation.