The Day Money Became Worthless
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ISBN13: 9798194960033
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the seventh day, Mark's bank balance still looks perfectly normal. It just can't buy a loaf of bread.
When flawless counterfeit bills flood circulation and a cyberattack corrupts the banking system, cash becomes suspect, cards become useless, and every transfer is impossible to verify. Stores lock their doors with food still on the shelves. Fuel is reserved for approved vehicles. Pharmacies guard their remaining medicine behind glass.
When flawless counterfeit bills flood circulation and a cyberattack corrupts the banking system, cash becomes suspect, cards become useless, and every transfer is impossible to verify. Stores lock their doors with food still on the shelves. Fuel is reserved for approved vehicles. Pharmacies guard their remaining medicine behind glass.
Mark's daughter is running out of asthma medication. His elderly neighbor needs insulin. So Mark drives toward the city with a half-full tank and an envelope of money no one trusts.
But survival no longer depends on what he owns. It depends on who will remember a favor, honor a promise, and put their name behind it. As townspeople invent vouchers and ledgers to replace the failed system, forgery and fear spread almost as quickly as hunger.
Then one delivery truck offers a fragile bargain: food for a city clinic, medicine for the town.
To make the journey possible, Mark must convince a divided community to risk its last fuel, its last supplies-and the little trust it has left.
THE DAY MONEY BECAME WORTHLESS is a tense, deeply human survival thriller about how quickly civilization unravels when money loses meaning-and what ordinary people build in its place.
But survival no longer depends on what he owns. It depends on who will remember a favor, honor a promise, and put their name behind it. As townspeople invent vouchers and ledgers to replace the failed system, forgery and fear spread almost as quickly as hunger.
Then one delivery truck offers a fragile bargain: food for a city clinic, medicine for the town.
To make the journey possible, Mark must convince a divided community to risk its last fuel, its last supplies-and the little trust it has left.
THE DAY MONEY BECAME WORTHLESS is a tense, deeply human survival thriller about how quickly civilization unravels when money loses meaning-and what ordinary people build in its place.
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