“You can’t handle the truth.” — Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, A Few Good Men Most institutions are counting on that. The systems around us are built to protect, to serve, to deliver justice. That’s what we’re told. But when one man looked beneath the surface, he found something more disturbing than corruption or incompetence: a system working exactly as designed. Not broken, precise. A machine built to feed on the vulnerable. Safeguarded by institutions. Maintained by those who profit most from keeping it running. What follows is a journey through betrayal, sacrifice, and defiant endurance – from the machinery of the courtroom to the deliberate erasure of a father from his children’s lives. This is alethophobia. The fear or dislike of the truth. And it is lethal. This is a book that cannot be ignored by anyone who believes that justice should follow the evidence, not the narrative.