When the lights go out, the war begins.After surviving attacks on the White House, London, and the President himself, Mike Banning thought his war was over. Retired and living a quiet life off the grid in the Scottish Highlands, Banning is pulled back into the shadows when a devastating global cyberattack plunges entire continents into darkness.
Dubbed “Black Aurora,” the attack disables communication systems, power grids, and defense satellites across the Northern Hemisphere — all in a single coordinated strike. Within hours, major cities descend into chaos. The White House is once again compromised, and the President of the United States is presumed dead.But he’s not.
A top-secret intelligence leak reveals that the President is alive — being held in an underground fortress beneath the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. The mastermind: Vladislav Kirenko, a former Russian black ops commander turned rogue cyber warlord, who believes the West must fall to make way for a “new age of order.”With NATO scattered and command lines severed, the U.S. turns to its last resort — the one man who has stopped the unthinkable before.Tasked with assembling a new team of elite operatives — including a genius hacker, a sniper with a vendetta, and an old friend from his Ranger days — Banning must infiltrate the most secure compound on Earth. But this time, he’s not just fighting mercenaries or warlords. He’s battling an enemy that controls drones, satellites, and the world’s most advanced AI defense system.
As night falls across the globe, Banning races against time — hunted through war-torn streets, collapsing cities, and deadly digital traps — to stop the launch of “Protocol Shadowfall”: a cyber-nuclear plan that could erase entire nations.But the deeper Banning goes, the more he uncovers a shocking truth — the attack may not be foreign at all. Someone inside the American government helped plan it.And they’re watching his every move.In the darkest hour of humanity, one man must stand between the fall of the free world and a future ruled by silence.
