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240 Hours - Part 2: A Quarantine City Traps Survivors for Ten Days
Paperback
Series: The Countdown Protocol, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
TEN DAYS. ONE QUARANTINED CITY. ONE CHANCE TO REACH EXTRACTION.
Elias Mercer and the survivors made it through the first phase.
Their reward is another countdown.
240 hours.
Somewhere beyond Sector 4, an extraction train offers the only way out. But the city between them and the tracks has been transformed into a killing ground.
Cleaner drones hunt movement from above. Streets funnel survivors into engineered traps. Scavengers fight over what little remains. Safe routes disappear without warning. Every injury slows them down, every mistake leaves a trail, and every hour brings the city closer to sealing itself permanently.
With Mara wounded, Tomas deteriorating, Sayeed protecting a vulnerable child, and their supplies disappearing one piece at a time, Elias is forced to make choices that survival was never supposed to require.
Worse, the deeper they penetrate Sector 4, the harder it becomes to believe the quarantine was designed merely to contain them.
Something inside the city is studying how they survive.
And reaching the train may only lead them into the next phase.
240 Hours- Part 2 is a relentless dystopian survival thriller packed with lethal urban traps, machine hunters, desperate alliances, betrayal, sacrifice and a real-time countdown toward extraction.
The map is gone. The drones are awake. The clock is already running.
Part 2 of the 240 Hours series. Best read after Part 1.
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