Reconstructed - Octávio Viana

Reconstructed is a novel about identity, artificial intelligence, power, and legal warfare. A man officially declared dead realizes that his life did not disappear: it was dismantled, analyzed, and repurposed by a sophisticated operation in which class actions, consumer associations, concealed funding, technology, reputation, and corporate interests blend into a machine that is hard to distinguish from justice.

At the center of this architecture is Ariadne, an artificial intelligence capable of organizing information, detecting patterns, reconstructing narratives, and turning real harm into strategic advantage. Between Venice, Trieste, Ljubljana, Vienna, Porto, Braga, Madrid, and Tangier, the narrator follows the traces of his own reconstruction while confronting lawyers, consultants, corporate structures, and figures from the past who know more than they should.

This is not a confession. It is a chronology of damage: human, legal, technological, and corporate.