Back-Doored: The Anatomy of the Setup

By Stanley Blackett

BACK-DOORED The Anatomy of the Setup

Some betrayals aren't sudden. They're built - quietly, one small compromise at a time - long before the door swings open behind you.

By the time you realize something is wrong, it's already too late - the trust was compromised chapters ago, the exits were sealed while you weren't looking, and the person who did it was standing close enough to call a friend. Back-Dooredis a psychological thriller about the slow, surgical construction of a betrayal: how it's built in silence, disguised as intimacy, and detonated only once every alternative has been quietly removed.

At its center is a life coming undone in real time - a mind trying to outrun a trap it can't yet see the shape of. Every kindness starts to look like bait. Every coincidence starts to look like design. Every person who was ever close enough to know your weak points becomes a suspect, including the ones you loved most. As the walls close in, the story peels back layer after layer of manipulation - the grooming of trust, the manufactured isolation, the perfectly engineered deniability - until the final, chilling truth surfaces: the setup didn't start the day it was discovered. It started the day you let someone in.

This is a novel about the architecture of betrayal - how it's designed, how it hides, and what it costs to finally see it whole. Because the most dangerous exploits are never the ones that break down your door.

They're the ones you hold open yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGP12JND
• ISBN13: 9798170041459
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"