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Treat As Real

By: Nash Reynolds
Narrated by: Henry Marshall
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A decorated Army veteran dies after participating in an experimental brain injury trial. The official ruling says suicide. His widow says otherwise.

Former Special Forces officer Cal Merritt agrees to review his friend’s records expecting grief, confusion, and unfinished questions. Instead, he finds evidence of memory gaps, neurological deterioration, and a clinical trial whose results were never released.

As Cal digs deeper, other deaths begin surfacing across the country — veterans from the same government-backed study, all ruled accidents or suicides. The pharmaceutical company behind the trial insists the program was safe. The Department of Defense stays silent. And everyone connected to the research seems more interested in containment than answers.

The deeper Cal goes, the harder it becomes to separate institutional negligence from deliberate suppression. Because the trial didn’t just alter memory.

It may have altered reality itself.

TREAT AS REAL is a grounded procedural conspiracy thriller about memory, military systems, and the cost of burying inconvenient truths.

©2026 Nash Reynolds (P)2026 Nash Reynolds Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Military Psychological Thriller & Suspense War & Military
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This is an interesting thriller with likeable, believable characters throughout. Cal Merritt is called upon to investigate a series of peculiar events following the death of an old friend. As he digs deeper into a research company with something to hide, he is met with silence, cover-ups, and increasing resistance at every turn. It's not an edge-of-your-seat thriller, but it is certainly addictive listening, with a mystery that keeps you wanting to know what happens next. Henry Marshall's narration is excellent, bringing the characters and drama to life. Highly recommended.
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