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Black Trident Rising
Paperback
Publisher: Vector Zero Press
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Beneath the World's Darkest Waters, a War Is Already Underway
Far below the reach of satellites, sonar nets, and international law, something impossible has been discovered.
A U.S. Navy drone vanishes in the Caribbean trench. No debris. No explosion. No explanation. Just silence.
What begins as a classified anomaly quickly spirals into the most dangerous intelligence failure of the modern era.
Because the ocean did not claim the drone.
Someone did.
An Enemy the World Was Never Meant to See
Hidden miles beneath the surface lies a fortress that should not exist-an immense, technologically advanced stronghold embedded in the abyss itself. It is ancient in ambition, modern in execution, and invisible to every known detection system.
From this undersea citadel, a shadow network is harvesting classified technology, mapping global naval movements, and preparing weapons designed to strike without warning and without attribution.
The mastermind behind it all believes the oceans belong to those ruthless enough to claim them.
And he may be right.
When Detection Means Annihilation, Who Can You Trust?
Daniel Rourke, a civilian intelligence analyst, knows the official explanation is a lie. The data tells a different story-one of deliberate interference, impossible engineering, and a pattern of disappearances stretching across the world's deepest waters.
As Rourke digs deeper, he finds doors closing fast. Superiors warn him off. Files vanish. Whispers circulate of a protocol buried so deeply it was never meant to be activated.
Then the messages begin.
Encrypted transmissions. Ghost signals. Evidence that the enemy knows exactly how the United States will respond-before it does.
And that the next strike is already in motion.
The Ocean Is No Longer Neutral Ground
With tensions rising between global powers and misinformation flooding diplomatic channels, a single miscalculation could ignite a conflict no one can contain.
Submarines are deployed. Black-ops teams mobilize. Political leaders debate deniability while the clock ticks down.
But the greatest danger isn't what lies beneath the sea.
It's what happens when the truth finally surfaces.
A Techno-Thriller That Dives Where Others Fear to Go
Black Trident Rising is a high-intensity military techno-thriller that blends cutting-edge naval warfare, covert intelligence operations, and relentless suspense. Drawing on real-world technologies and modern geopolitical fault lines, the novel delivers cinematic action with chilling plausibility.
This is not a distant future.
This is the war already being prepared-quietly, patiently, in the dark.
If the Ocean Becomes a Weapon, There Will Be No Safe Harbor
The abyss is no longer empty.
The trident has been raised.
And once it strikes, the world will never see the attack coming.
Dive in-before the surface explodes.
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