Fractured Oath

The Fractured Series: Book 1

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Genres

Espionage, War Fiction, Technothriller, Conspiracy Thriller, Dystopia, Political Thriller, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Graphic Violence, Death, Violence, and Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

The Fractured Series — Book 1

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Number of days to read

Publication Date

May 11, 2026

Page Length

264 pages

Available Formats

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Fractured Oath

The Fractured Series: Book 1

Published Copy

Blurb

You've been targeted. You just don't know it yet.

The algorithm doesn't tell you what to think. It tells you who to be.

At the heart, this is a psychological thriller set in an America that could exist in 2028. The plot follows four characters dropped into a country where social media is being used to push division through the population, and some people are chosen for their susceptibility to become radicalized.

This is a near-future fictional United States based on the reality of what could be the fracturing of us now. You will see up close how these operations are created and implemented. A former government agent helped build the system. She has spent 17 years planning to turn that power against the country that silenced her lover. A computer engineer creates the psych ops from his apartment in Palo Alto, California. A National Guard member has to choose whether her oath belongs to the federal government or to the states she serves. A former minister who has lost his faith in the middle of the fracture runs a popup urgent care clinic in the basement of his former church. Refugees and violence move through his city in the foothills as the Ogallala Aquifer collapses around them.

It is based on 5th Generation Warfare, and it could be happening to your neighbor. Maybe even you.

Details

Genres

Espionage, War Fiction, Technothriller, Conspiracy Thriller, Dystopia, Political Thriller, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Graphic Violence, Death, Violence, and Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

The Fractured Series — Book 1

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

Number of days to read

Publication Date

May 11, 2026

Page Length

264 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Rolin Crowe studied propaganda under Randall Bytwerk, one of the leading scholars on Nazi and East German persuasion. The central lesson: people believe what confirms what they already think. You don't change minds. You curate what they see.

Before that, he spent years in morning radio, building scenarios out of nothing but audio. Theater of the mind. Make listeners imagine what isn't there, believe in people who don't exist. After radio, a decade in digital media, watching platforms stop being tools for connection and become something else.

Fractured Oath is the architecture of that transformation, written as a thriller. It is the first book in The Fractured Series.

Crowe lives in Michigan.