Feuerinsel: A Techno-Thriller Novella

By Christopher David Payne

A message from the past. A warning for the future. A trap that has been waiting eighty years to spring.

It was supposed to be the perfect proposal. A sunset walk on a beach in Barbados. A ring in his pocket. But when a young couple pulls an old green wine bottle from the surf, they don't find a treasure map or a love letter. They find a corked nightmare.

Inside is a desperate plea scrawled in German, dated 1940.

Within forty-eight hours, the couple is dead.

Dr. Silas Vance, the CDC's top infectious disease specialist, recognizes the symptoms of a plague that shouldn't exist. To stop the outbreak from becoming a global extinction event, Vance must trace the bottle back to its source.

He assembles a team: Dr. Aris Thorne, a historian of the occult, and Commander Jack Rourke, a mercenary who specializes in the impossible. Their journey leads them to the "Dead Zone" of the Atlantic-to an island that appears on no modern map.

Feuerinsel. Fire Island.

Hidden inside the throat of a dormant volcano lies a secret Nazi research facility frozen in time. But the base isn't empty. It is guarded by industrial death traps, shrouded in toxic fog, and home to a biological horror that the Third Reich tried to bury.

The volcano is waking up. The virus is getting out. And Vance's team is about to discover that some secrets were never meant to be found.

In the tradition of James Rollins and Clive Cussler comes a high-octane thriller about the terrifying intersection of history, science, and survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNLLPNDG
• ISBN13: 9798247695516
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"