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A Friend Of None
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 4 2026
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He's not losing. He's convinced himself he's winning.
Scott Birch was always the smartest person in the room the one who saw the angles before anyone else, who could map ten moves ahead while everyone around him was still catching up. He wasn't supposed to end up here: isolated, calculating, standing across from a man whose head he's already broken in his mind.
A Friend of None isn't a story about crime in the way you think you know it. There are no easy villains, no shootouts, no speeches about right and wrong. What you're holding is a psychological record of erosion - the slow, quiet kind that doesn't look dangerous until it's already reshaped everything underneath it.
Told entirely in Birch's own voice, this novel traps you inside the logic of a mind that trusts itself too much. You'll watch ambition curdle into control. Watch isolation start to feel like independence. Watch a man mistake detachment for discipline one reasonable decision at a time until a friend of none stops being a posture and starts being a diagnosis.
This is a book about what happens when talent outpaces trust, and pride goes unexamined for too long.
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