I Was Never the Target

By Steve Francis

Michael Reynolds is an ordinary man living a quiet life in Chicago. No enemies. No secrets worth killing for. Until one night at O'Hare Airport, when a stranger calls out a name that isn't his and everything begins to fracture.

Someone else was supposed to disappear. Someone else was supposed to die.
Michael was only meant to pass unnoticed.

As his identity starts surfacing in places it doesn't belong, Michael realizes he has been pulled into a carefully built system of erasure, surveillance, and buried crimes. The man who chose him, Michael Turner, left behind more than a false name. He left a trail of evidence powerful enough to destroy institutions that thrive on silence.
Now Michael must decide whether to vanish again or carry the truth forward, knowing that being seen may be more dangerous than being hunted.He was never meant to be seen.
He was never meant to survive.

Michael Reynolds is an ordinary man living a quiet life in Chicago. No enemies. No secrets worth killing for. Until one night at O'Hare Airport, when a stranger calls out a name that is not his and everything begins to fracture.
Someone else was supposed to disappear. Someone else was supposed to die.
Michael was only meant to pass unnoticed.

As his identity starts surfacing in places it does not belong, Michael realizes he has been pulled into a carefully built system of erasure, surveillance, and buried crimes. The man who chose him, Michael Turner, left behind more than a false name. He left a trail of evidence powerful enough to destroy institutions that thrive on silence.
Now Michael must decide whether to vanish again or carry the truth forward, knowing that being seen may be more dangerous than being hunted.

A tense, atmospheric thriller about invisibility, identity, and the cost of survival.

He was never the target.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGC37NJN
• ISBN13: 9798243492676
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"