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The Patient
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The Patient

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A Gripping Psychological Thriller - Kafkaesque

John is sitting peacefully on his balcony when he first hears the faint wail of an ambulance in the distance. The sound grows louder and closer until, to his shock, the ambulance stops right outside his home. Before he can process what's happening, the paramedics rush in and, without explanation, sedate him. Unwillingly, he's taken to the hospital-his life spiraling out of his control.

John awakens to a nightmare. His identity has been erased. His name is now James, and he is thrust into a life he doesn't recognize. A wife and children he has never met claim him as their own. No one will explain the reason for the strange operation he underwent, nor the events leading up to it. With each passing day, James is dragged into an endless series of medical appointments and mysterious "procedures" that only deepen his confusion and unease.

As the days pass, the world around him grows increasingly surreal. His new family insists he is someone he's not, while the doctors remain tight-lipped, offering no answers. As James desperately tries to reclaim his lost identity, his sense of reality begins to fracture. What happened to John? Who is James? And why is nothing ever as it seems?

Plunging deeper into a terrifying spiral of uncertainty, James fights to unravel the truth. But the more he uncovers, the more he realizes that the most terrifying thing of all isn't the past he cannot remember-but the terrifying future he may never escape.

The Patient is a chilling journey into the fragility of the mind. This terrifying psychological thriller will leave you questioning reality until the final, heart-stopping twist. A Gripping Psychological Thriller

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alex Telman
Date
28 February 2025
Pages
228
ISBN
9798230507017

A Gripping Psychological Thriller - Kafkaesque

John is sitting peacefully on his balcony when he first hears the faint wail of an ambulance in the distance. The sound grows louder and closer until, to his shock, the ambulance stops right outside his home. Before he can process what's happening, the paramedics rush in and, without explanation, sedate him. Unwillingly, he's taken to the hospital-his life spiraling out of his control.

John awakens to a nightmare. His identity has been erased. His name is now James, and he is thrust into a life he doesn't recognize. A wife and children he has never met claim him as their own. No one will explain the reason for the strange operation he underwent, nor the events leading up to it. With each passing day, James is dragged into an endless series of medical appointments and mysterious "procedures" that only deepen his confusion and unease.

As the days pass, the world around him grows increasingly surreal. His new family insists he is someone he's not, while the doctors remain tight-lipped, offering no answers. As James desperately tries to reclaim his lost identity, his sense of reality begins to fracture. What happened to John? Who is James? And why is nothing ever as it seems?

Plunging deeper into a terrifying spiral of uncertainty, James fights to unravel the truth. But the more he uncovers, the more he realizes that the most terrifying thing of all isn't the past he cannot remember-but the terrifying future he may never escape.

The Patient is a chilling journey into the fragility of the mind. This terrifying psychological thriller will leave you questioning reality until the final, heart-stopping twist. A Gripping Psychological Thriller

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alex Telman
Date
28 February 2025
Pages
228
ISBN
9798230507017