RIBCAGE
A Superhero Detective Origin Story
The happiest man alive is the most dangerous thing in the city.
— Evidence // Item 01 // The Case
A bullet killed his mother. It should have killed him too. Instead, it made him RibCage.
The bullet left pieces of her heart inside his. Her blood kept him alive. Her body held the wound closed. And for three impossible days, the pressure of her death reshaped his ribs into something no surgeon could explain.
Thirty years later, Detective RC is the best cop in the city and the worst man in every room. He steals lunches, wrecks moods, solves impossible cases, and wears a black coat like the Grim Reaper got stuck on a day shift.
Because the world has no place for a man with that much love in his heart.
So he buries it behind a scowl, a badge, a reputation, and ribs that open like a cage to read the soul beneath the skin.
When superheroes have nowhere else to turn… they turn to RibCage.
“I expected a monster. What I met was worse. A man who could see everything inside me… and still decided I was worth saving.”
WITNESS STATEMENT // FILE #42
— Evidence // Item 02 // Subject Profile
Know him before he knows you.
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— Evidence // Item 03 // Editions & Pricing
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Title
Series
The Cage Files, Book One
Author
David A. Streen
Publisher
We Help Authors
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One detective. A universe of cases.
“In a city full of supers, the only hero who can read a soul is the one nobody can stand.”
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— The Author
David A. Streen
David A. Streen is a multi-patented inventor, serial entrepreneur, and author of The Art of Reading, The Art of Inventing, and Sherlock Holmes: The Case That Wrote Itself. He writes stories where the impossible follows procedure, and the procedure has a sense of humor. He lives in Arizona.
RIBCAGE
PB 978-1-968841-20-1 // HC 978-1-968841-21-8 // EB 978-1-968841-22-5 // AB 978-1-968841-23-2 // LCCN 2026918005
© 2026 David A. Streen. Published by We Help Authors. ribcagebook.com
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