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Useful Monster: The Government Mercenary Years
Paperback
Series: Caine
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the peace, he belonged to the dark.
Long before the orchard, before Ellie, before the quiet life that would one day be taken from him, Caine was already a name buried in files no government admitted keeping.
He was not recruited in the ordinary way. He was found. Feared. Studied. Pointed.
To crowns, ministries, intelligence services and covert handlers, he became the answer to missions too brutal to acknowledge and wars too dirty to name. A deniable weapon. A living contingency. A monster useful enough to keep close and dangerous enough to fear in silence.
Caine has walked through centuries of violence, but the modern world gives old sins new machinery. Safe houses. Black sites. Classified orders. Disposable teams. Clean reports written over blood. In this era, he is not just the myth with the blade. He is the shadow sent through locked doors when diplomacy fails, when soldiers are not enough, and when the state wants a thing done without ever admitting it asked.
But every system that uses a monster begins to believe control is the same thing as loyalty.
As missions grow darker and the men around him begin to understand what he truly is, Caine becomes both asset and threat. The same governments that point him at their enemies start asking the inevitable question: what happens when the weapon no longer obeys?
Useful Monster: The Government Mercenary Years is a dark supernatural thriller set in the Caine universe, following the years when an immortal killer was turned into a covert instrument of state power.
This is not the story of a hero.
It is the story of what happens when governments make use of something older, colder and far harder to bury than they understand.
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