When Men Thawed

In 1978, a secret military cryonics program revives frozen experimental recruits to test a new bio-engineering regimen. Thawed soldiers—stitched with grafted tissue and conditioned for obedience—awaken with fractured memories and a hunger for freedom. As tape-recorded orders fail and fluorescent labs flicker, the soldiers break containment, turning their makers into prisoners. With a paranoid press, a guilt-ridden scientist, and a country on the brink of Cold War brinksmanship, the revolt exposes the ugly bargain between progress and power—and a thawed humanity that refuses to be an army.