Evan Rook
Archive Disposal OfficerA government employee whose routine job becomes dangerous after he reads material he was ordered to destroy.
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A Political Conspiracy ThrillerThe Last CommandmentSelmir
Novel · Completed
The Last Commandment
A government archivist finds a banned book whose most dangerous instruction is simply to ask why.
Evan Rook works in a government disposal unit until a classified book exposes a principle powerful institutions are desperate to suppress. What begins as one forbidden text expands into a political conspiracy involving information control, public obedience, and the machinery that decides which ideas are allowed to survive.
- Structure
- Prologue + 18 + Epilogue
- Words
- 20,843
- Reading time
- 1 hr 31 min
- Audio
- In production
Content information
Violence · Strong Language · Political Themes · Disturbing Themes
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Characters
Helena Vey
DirectorA disciplined senior official whose motives are harder to read than her authority suggests.
Sarah Noll
JournalistA reporter willing to pursue questions that powerful institutions would rather keep unasked.
Gabriel Orson
Political CandidateA public figure whose campaign collides with the information crisis surrounding Evan.
The complete novel
Chapters
- PPrologueThe Ash Room3 min →
- 01Chapter 1The First Twelve Pages6 min →
- 02Chapter 2The Woman Who Never Said Ban5 min →
- 03Chapter 3A Clean Machine4 min →
- 04Chapter 4The Law That Wasn't a Ban6 min →
- 05Chapter 5The Candidate6 min →
- 06Chapter 6False Copies4 min →
- 07Chapter 7LANTERN6 min →
- 08Chapter 8Human Error5 min →
- 09Chapter 9The Warrant5 min →
- 10Chapter 10Accidents6 min →
- 11Chapter 11The Original6 min →
- 12Chapter 12The Committee5 min →
- 13Chapter 13Vault 6A5 min →
- 14Chapter 14The Subpoena5 min →
- 15Chapter 15The Contractor6 min →
- 16Chapter 16Election Night8 min →
- 17Chapter 17The Last Commandment5 min →
- 18Chapter 18The Cost of Why4 min →
- EEpilogueWhy2 min →
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