The Phoenix Protocol

About This Book

Erik Sterling walked away from war three years ago. After a botched operation in Syria left seventeen civilians dead, the former SAS officer retreated to Scotland's Orkney Islands, trading the crack of gunfire for the cry of gulls.

Then the phone rings. A British spy has been tortured to death inside a secret Siberian facility. His final transmission contained two words: Phoenix Protocol. Now British intelligence needs Sterling to assemble his old team and infiltrate the most heavily guarded compound in the Arctic Circle — because the children of Western scientists are being held hostage inside.

But the Phoenix Protocol is far more than a hostage situation. A brilliant rogue physicist known as the Architect has built a network of electromagnetic pulse weapons capable of destroying every piece of technology across the Western world. Financial systems. Hospital equipment. Military communications. Everything connected, everything vulnerable — all of it about to go dark.

When the first EMP detonates over London's financial district — turning helicopters into falling debris, pacemakers into death sentences, and one of the world's great cities into a blackout zone — Sterling realizes the Architect isn't making threats. He's keeping promises.

The worst part? The Architect might not be entirely wrong about what technology has done to the world. And the choice Sterling faces — save the children in front of him, or stop a catastrophe that will reshape civilization — is one where the math will never work out.