The Weapons Choice

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.