Rashid Al-Mansour

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Rashid Al-Mansour rewinds the same three seconds of audio—a victim's final gasp—listening for the microsecond where consciousness fractures into silence. His apartment walls are lined with cassette tapes labeled by date and victim name, each one catalogued not chronologically but by the acoustic signature of death itself. He hunts not for the kill, but for the precise moment the body surrenders the soul—and he's built a taxonomy of that moment across seventeen years.

Backstory

Nobody suspected the prestigious University of Damascus acoustics professor who could isolate a heartbeat from a crowded recording was teaching his eight-year-old son Rashid to hear the spaces between sounds—the micro-silences where human consciousness lived and died. When Syrian intelligence recruited Dr. Al-Mansour to analyze interrogation recordings for signs of deception, he brought Rashid to the laboratory as his "apprentice," claiming the boy's virgin ears could detect frequencies adults had learned to ignore. Three years of nightly sessions analyzing the vocal patterns of prisoners created a prodigy who could map the exact acoustic signature of a soul departing flesh, but the professor's sudden execution for "sympathizing with subjects" left Rashid orphaned with only his mother's vintage recording equipment and an insatiable hunger to complete his father's research. Fleeing to Copenhagen as a refugee, he discovered that his gift—once praised as scientific genius—could only be sa

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