Not Quite Dead

Eli Faulkner was never meant to survive. Left for dead after a covert government experiment went violently wrong, he's spent years off the grid-haunted, hunted, and angry. But when he crosses paths with Tomas, a brilliant young boy abducted by the same black-ops program that ruined him, Eli is forced back into a world of shadow science, resurrection technology, and brutal cover-ups.

Project Phoenix was built to cheat death-to create the perfect fusion of body and machine. Eli was their first success. Tomas may be their last. Now Eli must do everything he can to protect the boy, even as powerful enemies close in from all sides. From hidden research facilities carved into mountain rock to high-tech jungle compounds teetering on the edge of war, their journey becomes a desperate race to expose the truth before it's buried forever.

But surviving the experiments was only the beginning. With shadow agents, drones, and black-budget armies hunting them, Eli and Tomas are forced to rely on each other in ways neither expected. The bond that forms between them-part father, part brother, part soldier and survivor-is the only thing keeping them alive as they confront the monsters that made them.

As leaked documents and encrypted drives reveal the full scale of Project Phoenix's atrocities, Eli and Tomas ignite a global reckoning. But with every truth they expose, the threat grows more lethal. The program isn't just a secret-it's a religion to those who built it. And they will burn the world before they let it die.

In the heart of a jungle sanctuary turned resistance outpost, Eli must decide what kind of man he wants to be: a weapon forged in vengeance, or a protector built from pain. Because one thing is certain-if the people behind Phoenix rise again, he will be there to bring them down.

Not Quite Dead Yet is a relentless, emotional thriller about survival, redemption, and the war between memory and manipulation. Gripping, cinematic, and deeply human, it's a story of what it means to resist the machine-and live.