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Fearless (Large Print Edition)
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Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: John S. Pritchett
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fear was never the weakness. The pause was.
In Fearless: The Ecology of Fear, Staff Sergeant Daniel Mercer enters a military research program designed to do one thing: shorten the interval between perception and action.
The treatment works.
Mercer reacts faster. Hesitation falls. Survival projections improve. Fear itself remains intact-but the brain's conflict window narrows. Ambiguous situations resolve more quickly, first impressions carry more weight, and the instinct to reconsider arrives later.
At first, the change looks like optimization.
Then civilians begin dying.
Dr. Leena Khatri, the neuroscientist who helped design the program, watches the pattern emerge across simulations, deployments, and daily life. Treated operators classify threats more quickly and act with greater confidence-but under ambiguity, they become less likely to pause, reassess, or reverse course. What was meant to improve survivability begins to alter the balance between decisiveness and judgment.
The danger is not fearlessness. It is certainty arriving too soon.
As the engineered modification escapes its original boundaries, traces appear in animals, runoff, and eventually the wider environment. The change does not spread like a conventional epidemic. It integrates quietly.
Decision times shorten. Arguments resolve faster. Drivers accept smaller margins. Institutions move from debate to action with less friction. Errors are still corrected-but increasingly after commitment rather than before it.
The world does not collapse.
It adapts.
Years later, the effect is no longer treated as a crisis. Schools teach structured pauses. Governments redesign decision processes. Military doctrine separates high-threat operations from civilian contact. Society learns to manufacture the deliberation that once arose naturally.
But each generation inherits a slightly different baseline.
What happens when hesitation stops being instinct and becomes something people must choose to preserve?
Blending behavioral neuroscience, military ethics, ecological risk, institutional decision-making, and psychological suspense, Fearless: The Ecology of Fear explores the hidden value of doubt-and the cost of engineering it away.
A fraction of a second can contain restraint, reconsideration, and an entirely different future.
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