Below the Surface

By Ben Jakob

WHEN THE WORLD GOES DARK, THE ANCIENT STONE AWAKENS.

It didn't fall all at once. It peeled away, layer by agonizing layer. Months after a silent infiltration corrupted the world's financial clearinghouses, a catastrophic EMP plunges the globe into a pre-industrial nightmare. Rome burns. Washington stands empty. London's Underground becomes a subterranean tomb. As modern civilization collapses under a relentless, multi-front assault from an invisible, multi-headed enemy, humanity reverts to a brutal law of survival: fuel, water, and ammunition.

But while global capitals crumble, Israel absorbs the shock. As the smoke clears over a radically transformed Yerushalayim, the world scrambles for strategic explanations. On the ground, there is only a breathless, terrifying silence.
Deep beneath the ancient city, in sanctuaries sealed for centuries, a terrifying prophetic clock has begun to tick. A 200-year-old parchment has been uncovered, foretelling a leader who seeks neither crown nor authority-a man chosen to face the gathering darkness. The scaffolding of the modern world has fallen. The final war has shifted underground. And what is that sound that seems to be coming from everywhere?

This is the continuation of the Saga that started with Not My People and continued with The Late Great Who?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4RZLBRC
• ISBN13: 9798180980960
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"