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The Canary Program
Paperback
Series: The Raven Saga, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Roy Kern thinks the hardest part of his future will be leaving home.
On the shore of Lake Michigan, on what should have been his last ordinary day, he is still a young man trying to choose a life, still in love with Laura, and still close enough to believe the future can be built by force of will.
He is wrong.
By the time boot camp is over, Roy is no longer being measured by how fast he learns or how hard he fights. He is being evaluated for something colder. A hidden program is looking for men who can survive pressure, obey without breaking, and endure the slow removal of everything that makes them human on paper.
Then the tests stop feeling like training.
They start feeling like erasure.
As surveillance tightens and official language becomes a weapon, Roy realizes the system recruiting him is willing to bury names, rewrite lives, and sever families in the name of national security. To survive it, he will have to do more than become useful. He will have to decide what parts of himself cannot be taken.
The Canary Program is a grounded espionage thriller about identity, sacrifice, institutional control, and the cost of becoming the kind of man the machine can use.
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