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You have felt it.

That moment when logic pointed one way but something deeper pulled another.

When the sensible choice felt wrong and the irrational one felt true.

When your gut knew what your mind could not yet prove.

What if that voice deserves more trust than you were taught to give it?

This collection brings together three works from multi-award-winning filmmaker Mark Playne. From a forensic AI investigation that cracks open the COVID narrative, to a midnight ambush in Colombia where rehearsed logic becomes useless, to a North African boy whose story will have you laughing out loud one moment and crying the next.

These are books about love, loss, hope, suffering and the strange beauty of life itself. But more than that, they are about the collision between what we are told and what deep down, we know.

AI & I: Cracking the Corona Code

What happens when a filmmaker refuses to accept sanitised answers and pushes an AI until it reveals what institutions stayed silent about? This relentless interrogation examines the pandemic, the vaccines, excess deaths and suppressed treatments through chapter after chapter of evidence. The 2026 edition arrives substantially expanded and built for sharing, with new international data across 18 countries, new graphs and chapters protecting those most vulnerable to future pressure. Clear enough for any reader, rigorous enough for scientists, polished enough to hand to your GP.

★★★★★

"The information is extremely well put-together and explains scientific terms in a way that the man in the street can comprehend." – Dan Roberts

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The Architecture of Deception

The Architecture of Deception (AI & I Cracking the Corona Code Part 1)

The Architecture of Deception is Part 1. A faster read. Same investigation. Same evidence. Same undeniable conclusions. Streamlined for modern life.

Through dialogue between Mark Playne and artificial intelligence, it exposes the fraudulent foundation of the pandemic response, the systematic suppression, and the coordinated cover-up.

Available as an audiobook (perfect for commutes, holidays, poolside) or as a book. Both versions are accessible, engaging, and jaw-droppingly revealing.

MoMo - The novel

MoMo: The Incredible Adventures of Me, My Duck and a Man Called Wolof

Everyone tells MoMo what is possible. His poverty, his village, his beloved grandmother all say plainly: we are born into circles we cannot escape. But when MoMo watches geese fly overhead, something inside refuses to agree. Set in the crumbling ruins of a North African kasbah, this is the story of a boy whose inner compass proves more reliable than every rational voice telling him to stay small. A tale that will have you laughing and crying, sometimes on the same page. It writes about love, love lost, hope and pain with an honesty that reaches something deep and essential in the reader. Compared to The Little Prince and The Alchemist, it reminds us what children know before the world teaches them to doubt it.

★★★★★

"One of the most beautiful books I've ever read. It had me laughing out loud, crying with tears streaming down my face, and at moments it genuinely touched my soul."

Dr Malik

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MoMo - The four part serial

Splitting MoMo into four short parts rather than one long novel is a deliberate structural choice, and it matters most for exactly the child a grandparent worries about: the reluctant one.

A single 400-page novel is a wall. A child who struggles with reading, or simply doesn't yet see themselves as "a reader," looks at that wall and often doesn't start. Four short books solve this differently. Each one is genuinely finishable in a sitting or two, so the child gets to experience something they may never have had: the feeling of finishing a book. Not a chapter, a whole book, cover to cover, done.

That completion is the entire mechanism. Finishing Book 1 gives a child proof, not a promise, that they can do this. That proof is what gets them to pick up Book 2 by choice rather than obligation. By Book 4, a child who may have started the series believing they "weren't a reader" has finished four books. The four-part structure is quietly manufacturing four separate moments of success rather than one long, riskier bet on a single finish line.

The titles reinforce this on purpose too. The Egg, The Caterpillar, The Chrysalis, The Butterfly track a literal transformation, and a child moving through the four books is, structurally, mirroring MoMo's own journey. They're not just reading about change. They're being walked through their own small version of it, one finished book at a time.

For parents and grandparents specifically, this makes the series a genuinely useful tool, not just a nice story: it's built to convert a child who resists reading into one who has evidence, in their own hands, that they can finish books.

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3 Seconds in Bogotá

3 Seconds in Bogotá: A True Story of Travel, Terror and Survival

Mark Playne had prepared for everything. Six months travelling South America, every robbery scenario rehearsed, every precaution taken, three separate money stashes. Then came the moment his fortress of logic covered nothing: past midnight in the Colombian capital, armed men surrounding the taxi, a knife at the driver's throat, three seconds until the doors open. As time stretches and his rational mind flails, a voice emerges from somewhere deeper. This is not a book about planning. It is about what happens when planning and logic fails and something from deeper inside takes over.

★★★★★

"A Hollywood movie disguised as a travel memoir." – Adam Fletcher: Travel Author

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