Fiction · Kindle
YOU KNOW THIS MAN: EXCEPT HE DOESN'T EXIST.
Except He Doesn't Exist
Dominick B. Autore
You recognize him. Don't you? The silver hair. The calm expression. The authority of a man who spent decades delivering the news. There's only one problem: he never existed.
Kindle edition
The argument
His name is Jonathan Vale. For nearly thirty years, he was supposedly one of America's most trusted television voices. He interviewed presidents. Challenged billionaires. Millions welcomed him into their homes every evening. Jonathan Vale never existed — and yet, by the time you finish his story, part of you may feel like he did.
A provocative work of fiction that constructs the life and career of an imaginary media icon — interviews, network memos, ratings reports, colleagues, controversies, archived broadcasts, and memories that feel disturbingly authentic. This isn't really a book about Jonathan Vale. It's about you: why a familiar face feels trustworthy, and how much of authority comes from the suit, the desk, the lighting, and the institution behind it.
Inside the book
What it asks you to notice
A face you already trust
The experiment starts on the cover. Familiarity is doing work before a single page is turned.
The life of a man who wasn't
Interviews, memos, ratings, controversies — a career assembled so completely it starts to feel remembered.
Authority is a costume
How much of trust comes from facts — and how much from the desk, the lighting, the voice, the institution?
The question that follows you out
If you already know Jonathan Vale isn't real… why does he still look familiar?
The experiment started the moment you looked at the cover.
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