The Witness Cycle: The Cost

By A. Rowan Hale

The record is no longer his secret. Now it has a cost.

Elias Vane reported what he found. He followed the procedure. He trusted the institution to do what institutions claim they exist to do. Instead, the institution did what institutions actually do: it absorbed the finding, assigned it a tracking number, and buried it inside a review process designed to outlast the person who filed it.

Book II of The Witness Cycle follows Elias from disclosure into consequence - the slow, procedural erosion of a person who did the right thing inside a system that punishes rightness not with violence but with patience.

THE WITNESS CYCLE is a completed six-book institutional thriller in the le Carr tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSVJ2HV3
• ISBN13: 9798252266039
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"