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Treat As Real
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cal Merritt thought he understood risk.
After twelve years in Special Forces, he knows how threats move-direct, visible, physical. What he doesn't understand is what happens when the danger isn't a person, but a system.
When a former teammate dies under unclear circumstances, Cal is asked a simple question: Was it a choice?
What begins as a favor-reviewing a laptop, reading a few files-becomes something else entirely. A clinical trial. Missing results. Veterans reporting the same quiet decline. A pattern that shouldn't exist.
And then the pressure begins.
Legal letters. Silence. Records that don't quite match.
A system that responds not with force, but with procedure.
As Cal follows the trail, he realizes the threat isn't coming at him.
It's already in place.
Told with precision and restraint, TREAT AS REAL is a literary suspense novel about memory, accountability, and the quiet machinery that decides what becomes truth-and what disappears.
Perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow's quieter work, and John le Carré.
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