The Operational Reliability Series · Book I · Available

The Weakest Link

A Story About the Systems We Never See

Cover of The Weakest Link by Stephen Deason

A systems novel

By Stephen Deason. Margaret Lawson’s healthcare crisis unfolds through a chain of reasonable decisions and unowned handoffs. The story is followed by The Interpretation and a Resource Guide that names where information gets compressed, what a family can ask, and how care can keep from slipping through the gaps.

Available from Amazon.

Kindle eBook ISBN 979-8-952410-00-8 · Paperback ISBN 979-8-952410-02-2 · Published August 31, 2026.

Margaret Lawson’s crisis begins with a sequence of ordinary clinical decisions.

The Interpretation follows the novel and revisits the places where her family is asked to piece the story together.

A Resource Guide adds a care-coordination grid and questions for common transitions.

The edition is available as a Kindle eBook for $4.99 or paperback for $14.99.