The way out

audiobook

The way out

by Richard Rein Smith

EN·~36 minutes·2 chapters

Chapters

2 total
1

Part 1

31:36
2

Part 2

4:36

Description

In a stark, brutal facility, a soldier finds himself trapped in a maze of mirrors that never let him close his eyes. Every attempt at sleep is thwarted by drugs that force him to remain aware, turning his dreams into nightmarish overlays of his own reflection. As he endures relentless physical and psychological torment, he discovers that pain—both real and imagined—has become the only force driving his will to survive.

The captors demand the ultimate secret: how to end a war without killing a single man, and they use his shattered body as a tool to extract the answer. Stripped of the ability to feel ordinary sensations, he wrestles with his identity, questioning what it means to be human when pain is both weapon and compass. Listeners are drawn into his haunting internal struggle, a tense exploration of survival, morality, and the limits of the mind under extreme duress.

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Language

en

Duration

~36 minutes (34K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York, NY: Royal Publications, Inc., 1958.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2023-10-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Richard Rein Smith

b. 1930

A prolific paperback writer, he worked across science fiction, adventure, and other popular genres, often under a range of pen names. His stories appeared in magazines and mass-market books, giving him a long, varied career in accessible genre fiction.

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