The Weapons Choice
Paperback
Publisher: William Burmeister
Published: Jul 4 2026
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
His memories are missing.His instincts aren't.
Brian Cooper wakes in a hospital with no past and a body marked by violence. Fifteen years erased. No explanation. No mercy. But the nightmares come immediately-white rooms, metal restraints, voices whispering commands he can't quite hear. They feel less like dreams and more like instructions waiting to be followed.
As Brian tries to rebuild a life he doesn't remember, the cracks widen. He moves too fast. Reacts too precisely. Fights with a cold, automatic efficiency that terrifies him. Every instinct feels borrowed. Every emotion feels manufactured. And every shadow looks like someone watching.
When a viral video exposes abilities he didn't know he had, the truth begins to surface: Brian wasn't just taken.He was rewritten.
A federal strike team arrives to retrieve him. His father is murdered. The fragments of his past return in violent flashes-missions, conditioning, a name whispered in the dark: Subject Seventeen. The man who built him has been waiting for this moment, tracking him, studying him, preparing to reclaim what he created.
Brian's mind is a battlefield now.His humanity on one side.His programming on the other.
With Jeanette fighting to keep him grounded and a former program scientist revealing the horrors he survived, Brian faces the question he fears most:
If they designed the weapon...did they also design the man?
And if the man breaks, what's left is exactly what they wanted.
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