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Book 1: Die Twice, File Once

Title: Dirk Strangelove: Die Twice, File Once
Author: A. N. Mercer
Publication date: 29 July 2026
Print interior: 162 pages
Language: English
Kindle ASIN: B0HC3QVL7G
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Hardcover ASIN: B0HDJY41Y6
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Book 2: The War is Already Over

Title: Dirk Strangelove: The War is Already Over
Author: A. N. Mercer
Publication date: 3 August 2026
Print interior: 328 pages
Language: English
Kindle ASIN: B0HCP8WVNG
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Hardcover ASIN: B0HDK43DKQ
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Book 3: On the Other Hand...

Title: Dirk Strangelove: On the Other Hand...
Author: A. N. Mercer
Publication date: 8 August 2026
Print interior: 334 pages
Language: English
Kindle ASIN: B0HDJJ29N2
Paperback ASIN: B0HDK1RGJR
Hardcover ASIN: B0HDK1SMMC
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Book 4: As I Was Saying...

Title: Dirk Strangelove: As I Was Saying...
Author: A. N. Mercer
Publication date: 9 August 2026
Print interior: 316 pages
Language: English
Kindle ASIN: B0HDLW3GXV
Paperback ASIN: B0HDMK79CJ
Hardcover ASIN: B0HDM55645
Paperback ISBN: 9798191768427
Hardcover ISBN: 9798191772554
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Book 5: To Whom It May Concern

Title: Dirk Strangelove: To Whom It May Concern
Author: A. N. Mercer
Publication date: 10 August 2026
Print interior: 306 pages
Language: English
Kindle ASIN: B0HDQ2VP45
Paperback ASIN: B0HDQ9HH47
Hardcover ASIN: B0HDQ3HN4Y
Paperback ISBN: 9798191933245
Hardcover ISBN: 9798191935348
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Book 6: Yours Faithfully

Title: Dirk Strangelove: Yours Faithfully
Author: A. N. Mercer
Publication date: 10 August 2026
Print interior: 298 pages
Language: English
Kindle ASIN: B0HDQCRSTD
Paperback ISBN: 9798191948171
Hardcover ISBN: 9798191949833
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Series descriptions

Series in one line

A legally dead investigator keeps reporting for duty in a city where bureaucracy can rewrite memory, identity and reality itself.

Book 1: Die Twice, File Once

Dirk follows a missing worker into a corporate system that edits memories, reassigns names and treats personhood as company property.

Book 2: The War is Already Over

A Ministry raid exposes Dirk's dangerous gift for Faith: persuading people, machines and reality itself to accept a useful lie.

Book 3: On the Other Hand...

A darkly comic Sanctuary case about identity, memory, personhood and the terrible efficiency of a city that can turn a life into paperwork.

Book 4: As I Was Saying...

A dead man's last letter sends a probationary courier through missing addresses, erased lives and one official story that refuses to stay finished.

Book 5: To Whom It May Concern

A vanished door, maps that omit people and a perfectly straight road force a neighbourhood to decide whether certainty is worth becoming smaller.

Book 6: Yours Faithfully

Incompatible memories and old records push Sanctuary towards Full Lock as Dirk confronts the difference between helping people and controlling them.

Interview and feature angles

Why bureaucracy can be more frightening than a conventional monster.
How noir changes when identity itself becomes evidence and property.
Writing dark comedy without trivialising grief or institutional harm.
The difference between a life being recorded and a person being recognised.
Corporate dystopia built from incentives and procedure rather than spectacle.

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Retail and access

All six Kindle editions are offered through Amazon and Kindle Unlimited, with paperback and glossy hardcover editions. No off-platform ebook files are offered while the titles are enrolled in KDP Select.