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Untethered
A Navy neurologist is pulled from her routine caseload to evaluate a single patient in a facility that doesn't appear on any map she's ever accessed.
No diagnosis. No history. No explanation — just a security clearance she didn't know she held and a schedule that's already been rearranged without her consent.
What she finds in that room changes everything.
Dr. Maren Leath has spent fifteen years reading damaged brains. She knows what broken looks like — and what's sitting across the table from her isn't broken. It's something her training never prepared her for, and the answers lead somewhere far more dangerous than the classified walls around her.
Untethered is a white-knuckle military thriller with the neuroscience to back up every page — a story of duty, deception, and the question of what remains when everything that makes us human is removed.
No diagnosis. No history. No explanation — just a security clearance she didn't know she held and a schedule that's already been rearranged without her consent.
What she finds in that room changes everything.
Dr. Maren Leath has spent fifteen years reading damaged brains. She knows what broken looks like — and what's sitting across the table from her isn't broken. It's something her training never prepared her for, and the answers lead somewhere far more dangerous than the classified walls around her.
Untethered is a white-knuckle military thriller with the neuroscience to back up every page — a story of duty, deception, and the question of what remains when everything that makes us human is removed.
323 pages, Paperback
Published February 26, 2026
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March 15, 2026
1.5 ⭐This book could have been 100 pages shorter. The concept of the story is good - but unless you are well versed in medical terms - ultimately it falls flat.
There was far too much repetition, period. The pressing of hands on tables, 62 beats, the right tilt of the head, etc. At points the author used the phrase '... with the (adjective) of a (man, woman, computer) several times in the same paragraph to go into far too much detail that he often was repeating.
I noted several inconsistencies throughout the book - the main character is in a dark room but somehow can see the pupils of an Untethered 50+ yards away? On one page there were 6 doses and then the next 4? Writing military time like 23:30?
I read this book with the experience of a combat veteran who was hoping for more of a connection to the story and not rolling my eyes 62 times a minute. A hard pass for me and my first and last read by this author.
There was far too much repetition, period. The pressing of hands on tables, 62 beats, the right tilt of the head, etc. At points the author used the phrase '... with the (adjective) of a (man, woman, computer) several times in the same paragraph to go into far too much detail that he often was repeating.
I noted several inconsistencies throughout the book - the main character is in a dark room but somehow can see the pupils of an Untethered 50+ yards away? On one page there were 6 doses and then the next 4? Writing military time like 23:30?
I read this book with the experience of a combat veteran who was hoping for more of a connection to the story and not rolling my eyes 62 times a minute. A hard pass for me and my first and last read by this author.
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