Severance (The Last Regulator)

By Steven Nimocks

In the perfect city, every emotion is a crime waiting to happen.

The year is 2747. The Metroplex runs on silence - a city where every citizen wears a neural implant that intervenes before a feeling can fully form. No grief too sharp. No joy too loud. No anger the system cannot smooth away.

Detective Elias Reynor has been the Neural Compliance Division's most exemplary officer for nine years. His readings are perfect. His record is unmatched. His promotion is a formality.

Then a routine call sends him into a Sector 7 apartment where nothing about the scene adds up - and the deeper he investigates, the more he begins to suspect that what he's chasing isn't a conspiracy against the system.

It is the system.

To find the truth, Elias will have to reach for emotions the Metroplex has spent his entire adult life training out of him - and discover, too late, that what's been done to him cannot simply be undone.

A dystopian thriller about complicity, control, and the cost of becoming human again in a world that has engineered humanity out of its citizens.

Book One of The Last Regulator

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H77D81HX
• ISBN13: 9798996842407
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Three Notch Publishing (English)
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"