The Cartography of Forgetting: A Florida Noir Novel

By Tim North

Arthur Penhaligon is a man of files, folders, and air-conditioned silence.
The voice in his head, however, wants to burn it all down.

In the humid rot of the Florida interior, Arthur is a county archivist who meticulously organizes the past to keep the chaos of the present at bay. But when he discovers a moldy ledger in a stolen bag, his sterile world shatters. The book proves that Commissioner Halloway-"The Manatee"-is turning toxic waste dumping sites into luxury subdivisions, and Arthur's own digital signature authorized the crime.

Now, Arthur is the loose end.

Hunted by mercenaries and framed for arson, Arthur flees into the path of a Category 4 hurricane. But as the barometer drops, the pressure in Arthur's skull rises. The terrified librarian cracks, making room for "The Destroyer"-a feral, reptilian alter-ego who thrives in the wind and rain.

Trapped between the storm of the century and a corporate kill squad, Arthur must navigate a surreal landscape of dying malls, burning palm trees, and flooded suburbs. To survive the night, he must do the one thing he fears most: stop filing the world, and start breaking it.

The Cartography of Forgetting is a hallucinatory Florida Noir that reads like Carl Hiaasen rewriting Fight Club during a fever dream.

Inside the Eye of the Storm:
The Ghost Policy: A corrupt scheme where disasters are manufactured for insurance payouts.
The Bone Valley: A journey through the radioactive moonscape of the phosphate mines.
Bureaucratic Horror: The terrifying realization that the apocalypse is just a zoning variance.
Total Immersion: A sensory overload of heat, humidity, and hurricane-force winds.

"Identity is a fractured mirror reflecting Florida's own schizophrenic nature... where the line between control and chaos dissolves in the neon-soaked darkness."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GDW7SGPF
• ISBN13: 9798242189089
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"