Zero Hour

Description

Zero Hour
(Epoch 2036, Book 4)
* Amazon Title: Zero Hour (Epoch 2036, Book 4)

Andrew Johnson has spent years charting the precise rhythms of the Epoch Grid—until the failures begin to form a pattern no natural system should produce. When cascading blackouts strike research facilities and regional infrastructure alike, he realizes the anomalies are not random but engineered.

Rebecca Martinez arrives as the cyber analyst tasked with untangling the data corruption. Together they uncover scrambled timestamps, drifting clocklines, and a rogue algorithm accelerating the collapse. Their uneasy alliance is tested as automated systems lock them inside a failing facility with no power and no clear way out.

As they trace the signal to a hidden research station, each discovery tightens the noose: encrypted directives, structural sabotage, and a saboteur already several steps ahead. With relay stations collapsing and the grid on the brink of total failure, Andrew and Rebecca must outrun an algorithm designed to erase their every move.

In the final hours, a synchronized reboot becomes their only chance to restore power before the surge destroys what remains. The regional grid begins to stabilize node by node, but the shadow of deliberate interference lingers.

Zero Hour is a high-stakes technothriller about two minds racing against an unseen enemy to prevent the total collapse of the systems that keep society running.

* Genre: Technothriller, Science Fiction, Mystery, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian
* Keywords:
grid collapse
sabotage thriller
mathematician protagonist
cyber analyst
infrastructure failure
rogue algorithm
regional blackout
Epoch 2036
system clockline
relay station
* Amazon Categories:
1. Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
2. Science Fiction > Dystopian
3. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Technothrillers
4. Science Fiction > Cyberpunk
5. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Hard-Boiled
6. Science Fiction > Genetic Engineering
7. Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
* Target Audience: Readers who enjoy fast-paced technothrillers featuring technical protagonists, infrastructure-collapse scenarios, and investigative partnerships between scientists and analysts; fans of near-future systemic-failure stories that combine puzzle-solving with escalating physical danger.
* Read-alike Authors/Books: Neal Stephenson (Seveneves), Daniel Suarez (Daemon), Matthew Mather (Cyberstorm), James Rollins (Sigma Force series), A.G. Riddle (The Atlantis Gene)
* Series Information: Epoch 2036, Book 4
* Tagline: One pattern. One algorithm. Zero time left.
* Back Cover Blurb:
The grid is failing by design. A mathematician and a cyber analyst race to uncover the saboteur before the final surge erases everything.
* Marketing Hooks:
– A mathematician uncovers deliberate sabotage hidden inside cascading grid failures.
– Two investigators locked inside a collapsing facility must outrun a rogue algorithm.
– The fourth book in the Epoch 2036 series delivers high-stakes technothriller tension and a race against systemic collapse.