ABOUT SARAH
Sarah Hearn is a writer, former international official, and analyst of global affairs.
She has served with the British Government, NATO, the United Nations, and leading universities, and was awarded an OBE for her work in international affairs. Her career has taken her across Africa, Asia, Latin America, New York, and London.
Sarah’s non-fiction work has appeared through Lexington Books and in publications from major international organizations and universities. Her commentary has been featured in Euronews, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, and The Guardian.
With the insight of an insider and the independence of an outsider, Quiet Heretics is her first literary novel—combining moral philosophy, political tragedy, and dark satire.
ABOUT QUIET HERETICS
A literary, psychologically rich satire of global power in the digital age.
“These Morality Entrepreneurs feel like highly effective informational combatants.
Only we can’t sanction them, negotiate with them, or declare war back.
We feel less seen than ever.”
— President Fonseca, Quiet Heretics
Quiet Heretics is a novel about moral courage in an age of spectacle—an intimate, darkly observant story of modern purges, cowardice, the people who resist hysteria, and the quiet price paid by those who keep their consciences intact.
Set on the world’s grandest stage at the United Nations, mid-level diplomat Caroline Whitmore, once idealistic, now carefully invisible, finds herself torn between loyalty to her colleagues and loyalty to her duty. As a digital mob hunts for villains, a principled coworker is marked for public repentance, and a fragile island nation collapses under the weight of an online firestorm, Caroline must choose between the safety of silence and the risk of conscience.
Across the marble corridors of global power, a president in exile, a technocrat with more integrity than influence, a digital morality entrepreneur, and a Secretary-General desperate to belong all carry secrets of their own. Their fates coil together as the pressure to perform goodness becomes indistinguishable from the demand to betray it.
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