The Man Called Nine

About the book

Some men are born. Others are made. He has no name. No past he can remember. No life beyond the orders he's been trained to obey. He is Nine. A product of Project Orchid, a covert military program designed to turn human beings into perfectly obedient weapons, Nine has never questioned his purpose. He follows orders. He completes missions. He survives. Until something changes. When Nine finds himself among people who see him as a person rather than a weapon, the foundations of his carefully controlled existence begin to fracture. For the first time, he's confronted with choices he was never meant to make. Questions he was never supposed to ask. And feelings he doesn't have the language to understand. But the people who created Nine have no intention of letting him go. As the truth about Project Orchid emerges, Nine must confront the machinery that stripped him of his humanity—and discover whether freedom is something that can be given, or something he must claim for himself. Because the most dangerous thing a weapon can do is decide it no longer wants to be one. The Man Called Nine is a character-driven psychological thriller about identity, found family, love, and the extraordinary courage it takes to become your own person.