Publisher's Synopsis
At precisely 2:17 A.M. EST, the lights went out. A cascading cyberattack crippled the eastern U.S. power grid, plunging major cities into darkness. Hospitals scrambled to emergency power, air traffic control lost all visibility, and the financial core of America-Wall Street-flatlined. Billions vanished in an instant. News networks, social media, and government communications collapsed, leaving the country blind and leaderless.
In the White House Situation Room, President Jacob Harrington and his top security advisors searched for answers. Initial suspicions pointed to Russia, but this attack was different-its digital fingerprints untraceable, its code unlike anything seen before. It was an entirely new kind of warfare, where firewalls replaced fortifications and algorithms wielded more power than armies.
With the nation teetering on the edge of collapse, a covert team of cyber specialists, led by former NSA analyst Devin Cole, races against time to track the source of the attack. But as they uncover a chilling truth, they realize the enemy isn't a rogue nation or terrorist group-it's something far more insidious, buried deep within the very systems they swore to protect.
As America's future hangs by a thread, Cole faces an impossible question: How do you fight an enemy that exists only in the digital ether?