A First Contact Thriller

The Ones Who Wear Us

A.X. Mercer

He is forty points ahead.

He is beloved.

He is not human.

Then the sky answers.

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Concept cover for The Ones Who Wear Us: a smiling politician at a rally, a seam of scaled skin visible along his temple

The election is in twelve days. The candidate is not what he seems.

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Maya Castellano came home for dinner and arrived in time to watch a tall man walk out of her parents' house. By Monday the case file no longer existed. The only person who ever saw the killer's face is a small-town reporter nobody believes.

Seven months later she sees that face again: on a cable feed, fifteen feet from the most trusted man in America, twelve days before he wins everything.

Then the sky answers. The truth arrives in every mind on Earth at once, undeniable and unasked for. And the world does the one thing no one saw coming. It thanks the lie.

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First contact, told from the first minute. A novel of the day everything we argued about became the smallest question on Earth.

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