Ace of Paints: Book 1 of New Rome Rising—a near future dystopian thriller series by Richard Slater-Jones

His memory has been wiped, and his past is buried somewhere beneath the city.

The year is 2054. Humanity has fled the real world for the endless sprawl of the MetaVerses—except for Rome. Walled off and fiercely independent, the last city standing is a beacon of defiance in a sea of virtuality. But this utopia comes at a price.
Art is outlawed.
Freedom is a crime.

Enter Alex Snow. Weeks before his 29th birthday, the memory-wiped guerrilla artist awakens from a vivid dream with a fragment of his lost life. But when he descends into the shadowy underworld of tunnels, ruins, and old mines beneath Rome, the secrets he uncovers threaten to tear the city’s perfect façade apart.

Gritty, gripping, and wildly original, Ace of Paints is the explosive debut in a fast-paced series that reimagines the line between freedom and control, virtuality and reality.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian