How I Played God

He understands people too well.Their fears. Their loyalties. The stories they tell themselves when they need to survive what they have chosen.And he knows exactly what to do with that knowledge.How I Played God: A Psychopath's Diary is a dark psychological novel told through the private record of a man who has built a life around observation, control and the careful manipulation of human behaviour. To him, empathy is not connection. It is information. Trust is not sacred. It is architecture. And people are rarely as difficult to move as they believe themselves to be.At first, the diary belongs entirely to him.He decides what is recorded, what is omitted and what every event means.But as his methods expand beyond individual relationships and into organisations, governance and systems of power, other records begin to enter the story: case files, internal documents, testimony, findings and evidence he did not author.For the first time, the man who has spent his life interpreting everyone else is forced to exist inside a record he cannot completely control.There is no redemption waiting for him.No confession designed to make him easier to forgive.Only the gradual exposure of a mind that can understand another person with extraordinary precision while remaining almost untouched by the moral meaning of what it sees.And when the institution finally learns how to describe him without needing his version of events, one question remains:What happens when the man is removed, but the method survives?How I Played God is a standalone psychological novel in The Ruined God Series, a collection exploring psychopathy through different men, different methods and different relationships to control, appetite and consequence.The books may be read in any order.