Woodpecker
Woodpecker is a Cold War horror novel about the infamous Duga radar installation near Chernobyl, split across two timelines.
The Soviet Union called it an early-warning radar.
The men who worked there knew better.
Ukraine, 1983.
When engineer Sergei Volkov receives unexpected transfer orders to a classified installation hidden in the forests outside Pripyat, he expects radar maintenance, military secrecy and questions he is forbidden to ask.
Then he hears the second signal that does not come through the antenna, but from somewhere beneath it.
There are rooms at Duga that do not appear on any plan. Cassette tapes labelled with names that should mean nothing to him. Workers who vanish from the records. And every night, at exactly 03:13, the enormous structure known in the West as the Russian Woodpecker begins listening to something no one can explain...
Decades later, an urban explorer arrives at the abandoned installation with cameras, a drone and an audience of millions waiting for his next video.
He expects another recording of Cold War ruins, but instead, his equipment records something impossible.
Something that was never meant to leave Duga.
And once the footage is uploaded, people begin to hear unnerving voices.
Some secrets are buried because governments want them forgotten, and others are buried because they are still listening.
WOODPECKER is a dark Cold War horror novel blending historical conspiracy, abandoned-place terror and cosmic dread in the shadow of Chernobyl's most mysterious machine.
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