The Duly Departed

What if everything you thought you knew about the pandemic — and about the people who disappeared — was a carefully crafted lie?

In The Duly Departed, debut author Eric Harvey delivers a haunting, high-stakes journey into the heart of modern-day China — and into the soul of a nation that may never be the same.

Jun was born in Wuhan and left home in the 2010s like millions of others chasing better opportunities abroad. But when the world reopens after a global pandemic, Jun returns to find something far more disturbing than quarantines or lockdowns: silence. Entire neighborhoods abandoned. Entire histories wiped clean. And no one willing to speak of what really happened.

This gripping novel blends historical fiction, geopolitical thriller, and speculative realism to explore:
• The vanishing of entire populations in plain sight
• The weaponization of truth in authoritarian systems
• What one person will risk to uncover a buried past

Harvey’s writing is raw, urgent, and deeply human — drawing from real-world events, insider knowledge, and spiritual insight to expose the cost of erasure in the age of surveillance.

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📍Perfect for readers who enjoy:
• Dystopian thrillers rooted in real-world geopolitics
• Characters torn between family, culture, and conscience
• Works like 1984, The Man in the High Castle, or Snow Crash

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Truth didn’t die in the pandemic — it was buried.
The Duly Departed is the excavatio