The Price of Silence: An Elric Voss Prequel

By: Wessels, Mike

Before Deadly Truth, there was The Price of Silence.

Private investigator Elric Voss is broke, behind on rent, and desperate enough to take a quiet job tied to Price Industries. On paper, it is simple work-observe, report, and keep his mouth shut.

But nothing about Price Industries is simple.

Behind polished halls and corporate language, Elric uncovers a biometric study designed to measure fear, pressure, loyalty, and the breaking point of human truth. What begins as observation turns into something far darker when he realizes the study is not just collecting secrets-it is using them.

As lives begin to unravel outside the lab, Elric is forced into a brutal choice: stay silent and survive, or expose the truth and risk becoming part of the damage himself.

Dark, tense, and steeped in noir atmosphere, The Price of Silence is the prequel short that reveals the case that helped make Elric Voss the man he becomes in Deadly Truth.

For fans of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Robert B. Parker hard-boiled mysteries.

Some secrets destroy lives.
Some secrets fight back.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H23T3VX9
• ISBN13: 9798197286833
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"