Saving lives was just his prologue.
Oliver Adams is a medic on the edge, haunted by trauma, drowning in burnout, and clinging to the belief that saving lives still means something. But when a string of eerie EMS calls begin to mirror stories from his old paramedic blog -line for line, death for death -he realizes that someone is turning his past into a kill list.
Framed for murders he didn’t commit and hunted by a system he once served, Oliver must outwit a weaponized AI dispatch network, a ruthless insurance empire, and the one man who knows all his weaknesses. The one Oliver helped train..
Blending high-stakes conspiracy, psychological suspense, and unflinching medical realism, The Trilogy Project is a genre-bending thriller that cuts deep into the cost of truth in a world that commodifies survival.
If you crossed The Terminal List with 1984 and set it in the back of an ambulance, you’d get this.
The Trilogy Project is the explosive debut novel from former Denver paramedic Ryan Herrington, a sharp-tongued writer with a dark sense of humor and ten years riding the thin edge between chaos and control.
Drawing from real calls and real trauma, Herrington pulls back the curtain on the brutal, and often blurred line between saving a life and watching one slip away.
Gritty. Unflinching. Bleeding with truth. This is fiction with blood on its boots.
The Real Stories Behind the Fiction
From Blog to Book:
The Trilogy Project was born from a decade spent on the streets of Denver as a paramedic—and from the raw, unfiltered stories that I shared on my blog, Rocky Mountain Medic. What started out as a personal outlet to process trauma, burnout, and the dark humor of EMS life evolved into something bigger: a glimpse behind the curtain of public safety, and eventually, the spark for this novel.
Many of the scenes in The Trilogy Project are rooted in real calls, real patients, and real moments that haunted me long after shift change. While the conspiracy and thriller elements are fiction, the emotions are not. The fear, the exhaustion, the moral conflict—that’s all real.
This book isn’t just a story. It’s a tribute to the medics, nurses, and first responders who carry the weight of other people’s worst days… and still show up. If you’ve ever read the blog, you’ll see the fingerprints of those true stories throughout this book.