Me Against Myself

Dardo does not know what he is. He only knows what happens inside him when harm becomes possible: a terrible clarity, followed by shame, disgust, and the fear that something in him is not merely broken, but designed. After a violent encounter in a nearly empty church, Dardo is drawn into the buried architecture of his own origin: adoption records that do not align, sealed files, anonymous envelopes, and a doctrine that treats human reaction as evidence.
What begins as a private crisis becomes a controlled sequence of tests, each one forcing him to choose between obedience, refusal, and the cost of remaining human. As a police investigation closes around him and a hidden network begins to measure his every response, Dardo discovers that the question is not simply whether he is guilty. The deeper question is whether guilt still matters when the world itself starts arranging his choices into a count.
Me Against Myself is a dark literary psychological thriller about identity, doctrine, violence, moral revulsion, and the terrifying possibility that the self is not a refuge, but a field of conflict.