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Captain Coder - The Cult of the Eternal Flame
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781069546227
Publisher: Neil Rideout
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Captain Coder The Cult of the Eternal Flame by Neil Rideout is a high octane techno thriller that fuses cutting edge science, seismic catastrophe, government intrigue, and the rise of a mysterious ideological movement threatening to reshape the world.
Set in 1987 along the sunlit cliffs of Laguna Beach, genius technologist Cornelius Captain Coder Coder and his brilliant partner Nick Jensen find themselves facing an unprecedented crisis when a swarm of devastating earthquakes ignites chaos across California. What begins as a series of tremors quickly escalates into city wide infernos, collapsing skyscrapers, and mounting panic. But something about these quakes is wrong.
Using an experimental seismic frequency detector, Nick uncovers a disturbing anomaly powerful, rhythmic precursor signals appearing thirty seconds before every major quake. These structured pulses behave less like natural tectonic shifts and more like a broadcast emanating from a single point deep within Nevada. As Los Angeles burns and the West Coast fractures, Captain Coder is drawn into a web of classified data, satellite surveillance, and uneasy collaboration with the US Geological Survey and Pentagon officials.
The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes this is no ordinary geological event.
Beneath the Nevada desert lies a hidden epicenter tied not to nature, but to human ambition. A charismatic zealot has risen in the shadows, harnessing advanced technology and apocalyptic rhetoric to build a rapidly expanding movement known as the Cult of the Eternal Flame. Preaching purification through fire and rebirth through destruction, the cult spreads its influence as infrastructure crumbles and fear grips the nation.
What begins as seismic manipulation evolves into something far more dangerous psychological warfare, coded sermons transmitted through hidden networks, and a radical doctrine that blends faith, science, and control. As society teeters on the brink, Captain Coder must confront not only a technological adversary, but the seductive power of belief itself.
With the help of Elizabeth his fiercely loyal partner and a tight knit inner circle that includes his sharp witted father and ever vigilant friend Barry, Captain Coder races to expose the source of the engineered quakes before an even larger catastrophe is unleashed. From underground data lairs to government war rooms, from burning city streets to secret desert compounds, the battle intensifies.
As tectonic plates shift and loyalties fracture, one question looms. Is humanity facing a natural disaster, or a calculated ignition.
Blending speculative science with relentless action and philosophical undertones, Captain Coder The Cult of the Eternal Flame explores the thin line between innovation and fanaticism, the vulnerability of modern civilization, and the dangerous allure of those who promise salvation through destruction.
When the earth itself becomes a weapon, only those who understand its code can stop the flame from consuming everything.
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