Contrarian by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/189046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Contrarian Series: The Grand Illusion, Book 3 Author: L. E. Modesitt Jr. Narrator: Michael Bower Format: mp3 Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins Release date: 09-26-23 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 34 ratings Genres: Gaslamp Publisher's Summary: In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths—but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building by insurrectionists.