BELOW THE NOISE

Some truths can only be heard.A literary conspiracy thriller. Coming October 15, 2026.

SYNOPSIS

Six years ago, Nora Falk testified before Congress that the surveillance program she helped build was sound. Today, she's the private investigator hired to find out why the man who hired her ended up dead — and the deeper she gets, the more the case looks like the same machine she once swore was safe, still running, still making the mistake it made to a stranger named Tariq Masood before anyone thought to ask her name again.She has the evidence. She has the access. What she doesn't have is the right to use either without becoming exactly what she spent her career warning the country about.For readers of Mick Herron and John le Carré.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Oliver J. Starling writes literary thrillers about institutions, surveillance, and the people caught between what they know and what they're allowed to say. Below the Noise is his debut novel. He lives away from cameras, and prefers it that way.