A Private soldier is dead. A Sergeant stands accused. Corporal Henry Knox was the first Royal Military Police NCO on the scene.

Eight months later, Knox is pulled out of Iraq and sent back to Germany to give evidence at a court martial. He expects to speak only to the events of a live-fire exercise in Poland.

But once he is in the witness box, the case begins to widen. What he wrote down at the time no longer seems to be enough. What he missed matters just as much. And as the court turns over the days leading up to the shooting, Knox is forced to confront the limits of his own evidence — and the uneasy possibility that the death was never as straightforward as it first appeared.

Make Safe is a Henry Knox novella: a taut military story of duty, memory, and the weight of small details inside a system built to contain them.