World War III

By L.Troy Schwäigele

"The most terrifying thriller of the decade."
Eleven minutes. That's how long it took to erase fourteen trillion dollars from the global economy and push the world to the brink of annihilation.
When a cyberattack of unprecedented scale collapses the global financial system, nations mobilize, alliances fracture, and the first shots of a new kind of war are fired - not with missiles, but with code. Cities go dark. Warships converge on the Taiwan Strait. The Arctic is seized. NATO splinters. And behind it all, an enemy no one suspects: a private corporation that engineered the crisis for profit.
Five strangers across four continents hold pieces of the truth. A Pentagon colonel who uncovers the lie and risks everything to expose it. A Chinese naval officer who locks himself in a weapons room to stop a missile strike on a sleeping city. A Russian journalist who publishes the story of her life knowing it may be the last thing she writes. A Taiwanese hacker who finds the fingerprint in the code. And a retired British diplomat who brokers a ceasefire from a hospital bed with a broken heart.
They have never met. They are running out of time. And the corporation that started the war is watching every move they make.
A pulse-pounding, multi-perspective thriller for readers of 2034, Ghost Fleet, and Red Storm Rising - with the emotional depth of Station Eleven. This is not your grandfather's war novel. The battlefield is everywhere. The enemy is invisible. And the clock is ticking.
"What would World War III actually look like? This book answers that question with terrifying plausibility."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6SMDBSL
• ISBN13: 9798257545603
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"