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The Sextant
Paperback
Series: The Sextant Protocol, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 26 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Patrick Jurisich keeps a hospital's data moving and has not slept since his brother went into the water off Pointe à la Hache. When a clinical trial offers to fix that with a coin-sized device behind his ear, he signs. For three years it works. He wants to get out of bed. He stands at his brother's grave and feels exactly the right amount.
Then a doctor asks whether there is anything he used to feel that he doesn't anymore, and Patrick discovers there is no way off the device, no one was ever asked, and the company that built it would drag him back out of love.
With the back-office manager of a psychiatric practice who reads people from one detail outward, a VA prosthetist who has watched bodies fail to fit machines for twenty years, and a city that floods, Patrick sets out to steal the key to his own mind, and to find out whether there is anyone left inside to use it.
A novel about being kept, being asked, and the true size of grief.
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