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The Greenland Affair: Fiction or Prediction? The Race for Arctic Dominance

The Greenland Affair: Fiction or Prediction? The Race for Arctic Dominance

Bende, Michael

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798198900844
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 27 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a CIA Director decides Greenland is a strategic asset to be conquered, three people must choose between loyalty and conscience-and the truth becomes a weapon more dangerous than any missile.

CIA Director James Blake has designed Operation Silent Merian with surgical precision: seize control of Greenland's rare earth minerals, manipulate its independence movement, and lock the Arctic into American dominance before Russia and China realize what's happening. It's a masterpiece of geopolitical strategy-until it starts to fall apart. S ren Andersen, a Danish intelligence officer recruited to work with Blake, watches in horror as the operation escalates from intelligence gathering to regime change. Mary Todd, an investigative journalist with dangerous sources deep inside the State Department, begins piecing together classified fragments of a truth that powerful people will kill to protect. And President Richard Hartwell, a former real estate developer who views nations like properties in a portfolio, must confront the question of whether the business logic that made him successful can be applied to sovereignty without destroying everything it touches.

As Blake's conspiracy spirals toward an Arctic confrontation that could reshape global power, S ren and Mary converge on an explosive choice: remain silent and watch a democracy be manipulated from within, or expose Operation Silent Merian and sacrifice everything-careers, safety, freedom, and the comfortable illusions that allow governments to operate in shadow. In a world where national security trumps accountability, where intelligence agencies answer to no one, and where the truth is classified as a threat, can three ordinary people triumph against the machinery of power? And what is the cost of speaking truth when the cost might be everything?

A geopolitical thriller that explores the moral reckoning when intelligence operations spiral beyond control, when whistleblowers must betray the institutions that trained them, and when investigative journalism becomes an act of courage in the face of overwhelming pressure. For readers of All the President's Men, The Spy Game, and Classified.

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