The Pattern Files
Something is converging. Someone is listening back.
The number is forty-eight.
That's how many times Asa Thibodeaux, a political science professor in Louisiana, watched the same post disappear from three rival social platforms within three days. His department chair tells him to take the summer and rest his eyes. Instead, he buys a cheap microphone and starts recording.
What he finds is a pattern made of missing things. Deleted posts. Retracted papers. A black glass pyramid on the Las Vegas Strip whose deepest floors were wiped from its blueprints. Private jets from seven cities are all converging on that building for one week in August. And the closer Asa gets, the clearer it becomes that someone is listening back.
The Pattern Files is a ten-episode, full-cast audio drama set in the world of Don't Think Me Evil. The audiobook runs 3 hours 38 minutes, and you don't need to have read the book. It's free for a limited time when you join Elwood West's readers list.
Performed by a blended cast of human and AI voices.
How to listen
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If this show ever goes dark, the quiet is your answer.