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Beyond The Wire
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Noosphere, LLC
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bulgaria, 1969. The Iron Curtain doesn't just divide nations-it decides who lives and who dies.
Petar Vasilev is nineteen. A mechanical genius trapped in a police state that punishes independent thought. His future: a factory assignment filing metal until his hands give out. His only alternative: escape across the most heavily fortified border in Europe.
The fence carries lethal voltage. The minefield follows a grid only the guards know. The Pirin Mountains kill in May. And the State shoots runners on sight.
But Petar sees what others don't. Every system has weaknesses. Every machine can be reverse-engineered. The fence wire sags where erosion undermines the posts. The guard patrols run on a timetable. And dew settles on tripwires just before dawn, turning the invisible visible.
With another escapee-a boy whose artist's eye can read shadows and light-Petar plans the impossible. Thirty kilometers of wire, dogs, and frozen ground. Seventy-two hours where one miscalculation means death. And a river crossing that will strip them to the edge of survival.
Because freedom isn't granted. It's engineered.
Beyond the Wire is a Cold War thriller in the tradition of Ken Follett-where meticulous planning collides with brutal reality, and every step toward freedom is earned with physics, courage, and the refusal to accept the system's calculations.
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