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The Compass

The Compass

Taliancich, Troy

Paperback

Series: The Sextant Protocol, Book 3

Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798177415826
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Forty soldiers. One device, paired to all of them. A platoon that moves like a flock and closes around a gap in under a second.

The Compass is the third generation of the Sextant, and the Army's readiness program has put it behind the ear of every man in a platoon at Fort Moore. It reads the unit as a body. It holds each man where the others are. It asks once a week, and the sergeant answers for all of them. The company's line is four words long: You'll always know which way.

Private Enos Boudreaux, nineteen, from Houma, signed the form because his friend signed it first. Nobody asked him a question; he'd have remembered. Now a chaplain who used to build pumps asks him one every Thursday, and he has no answer. Four hundred miles away, his mother hears a word on the phone that isn't his, and starts writing down the times.

In a basement on Canal Street, she learns to sew. In a records closet, a woman who keeps everything opens a new row. In a valley with no tower, forty men with a mother's seams in their helmets are about to find out what's under the pull. And the man who built the gate between the pools has written, for the first time in his life, a memo against himself.

The Compass is the last book of the Sextant trilogy and stands on its own. Told in eight voices across Louisiana, Utah, and Georgia, it is a novel about a platoon that learned to look instead of feel, a boy walking home to a kitchen with someone's back turned, and the one question no instrument has ever been able to hear.

A novel about the flock, the seam, and who gets to say where you are.

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