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The Afterline Bureau: Termination Point
Paperback
Series: The Afterline Bureau, Book 19
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 21 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
TERMINATION POINT
An Afterline Bureau Thriller - Book 19
by Tobey Alvarez
The child wasn't taken.
She was transferred.
When a missing child case quietly crosses jurisdictional lines and local response fails, the Afterline Bureau is activated-not to investigate a disappearance, but to intercept a system that knows exactly how to move children without triggering alarms.
What begins as a routine intake quickly reveals something far worse: a dormant ideological network has resurfaced, using municipal infrastructure, psychological conditioning, and bureaucratic blind spots to extract children in plain sight. No vans. No ransom. No chaos. Just compliance.
As the Bureau races through tunnels, service corridors, and sealed transit spines beneath the city, the operation escalates from recovery to confrontation. The architect behind the network isn't hiding-he's waiting. And when the rescue collapses into violence underground, the cost becomes brutally clear.
A child must be moved forward.
A line must be held.
And someone won't make it out.
TERMINATION POINT is a tightly wound, procedural thriller about systems that fail quietly, people who refuse to look away, and the price paid when doing the right thing means standing still while everything else falls.
Grim, grounded, and relentless, this is Afterline at its most focused-where the mission ends cleanly, even when the aftermath doesn't.Also from
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