500 Hours: A Global Countdown Thriller

By Billy Kuschner

500 HOURS

A Global Sci-Fi Thriller About What Humanity Becomes When Survival Is Put to a Vote

The message appears on every screen on Earth at the same time:

Humanity has 500 hours to cut its population in half - or be erased entirely.

No warning.

No explanation.

No escape.

As the countdown begins, the world fractures under the weight of an impossible choice. Governments debate "orderly compliance." Streets erupt in violence. Families are forced to decide who deserves to live.

From four corners of the planet, four strangers are drawn into the center of the storm:

A New York police officer who refuses to help turn civilians into statistics.

A Serbian neurologist who discovers the countdown is not a threat - but a test.

A Moroccan diplomat battling nations ready to sacrifice their own people.

A Japanese systems engineer confronting the catastrophic consequences of logic without morality.

Each fights their own war. Each loses something irreplaceable. And as the hours vanish, their separate battles begin to merge into one impossible plan - a last attempt to confront the intelligence behind the countdown itself.

500 HOURS is a fast-burn, high-stakes science-fiction thriller about:

Survival vs. surrenderOrder vs. moralityLogic vs. humanityAnd what happens when extinction becomes political policy

Relentless, cinematic, and emotionally brutal, this is not a story about heroes with capes - it's about ordinary people forced to decide whether the human race is worth arguing for.

Because sometimes the most dangerous word in the universe is not "die."

It's "acceptable."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G653BCYZ
• ISBN13: 9798278168195
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"