THE WATCHERS
High-concept suspense with speculative elements...
Complete and available for representation
Arthur Cahuac didn't volunteer for this.
Kidnapped by an agency that operates outside the law, hidden beneath a lake, Arthur is a watcher — one of a rare few whose neural pathways allow his consciousness to be projected into other minds, in other times. His handler is Conrad: charming, dangerous, and never quite honest. His brother Gunther is the leverage that keeps Arthur compliant.
They are excursions into the past. Arthur walks through history inside borrowed flesh — a murderer in Utah, a missing person on September 11th — gathering intelligence on events the world has already buried. Each host sheds something though. Each invasion extracts a cost.
But the agency's walls are closing in. A fellow watcher is dying in the tank. A new controller has arrived, and doesn't care who he breaks. Arthur is discovering just how much he is worth — and what that means for the people around him.
The Watchers is a visceral psychological thriller about coercion and consciousness — about what it means to inhabit a life that isn't yours, and the terrible arithmetic of survival when escape feels impossible.
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👁️ KG Abbot: holds an MA in Creative Writing from the Open University. Before turning to fiction, he spent fifteen years in intelligence and investigations across the Metropolitan Police Service, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, and the Serious Fraud Office — experience that sharpened his understanding of how institutions exercise power, and how individuals navigate the systems that govern them.
👁️ KG Abbot is his pen name...
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