The Terrifying Aspect of Blankness, or The Random Adventures of Mr Protagonist

Consumer Warning: This story was written as nothing more than an attempt to break years-long writer's block, and began with literally no plans for plot, character, or even genre. When I got stuck I used http://hourlywritingprompts.tumblr.com/ to move forward, and the prompts are in the chapter headings. This is unedited, apart from deleting lines and words that were to be excised - I left in ((in double brackets)) edit notes and bits to be added later.

Bearing all that in mind, this is a conspiracy-theory detective story with a romantic sub-plot.