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Manual Override: The Future was a glitch. The past is our only weapon.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 24 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a single, silent second, the modern world is deleted. A high-altitude EMP, launched in a coordinated strike by China and North Korea, has turned the United States into a graveyard of dead circuits and dark screens. No phones. No GPS. No way to call for help as the invasion fleet shadows the West Coast.
Knox Hargreaves was a man the world had moved past. A survivalist mechanic with a penchant for carbureted engines and 1970s steel, he was mocked for living in the stone age. Now, he's the only man with a working vehicle for five hundred miles.
Malcolm Parsons is the architect of the very digital walls that just crumbled. A top Pentagon analyst, he is stranded with the only physical briefcase containing the manual override codes for the nation's last Dead Hand silos. Without them, the country is a sitting duck for General Zhao Min, a brilliant strategist who plans to reboot America under a new, foreign flag.
Harmony Morrison is a digital ghost-a nineteen-year-old influencer whose entire existence was tied to the Cloud. Thrown into the path of Knox and Malcolm, she must trade her followers for a fire-starter, discovering that in a world without signals, your voice only carries as far as you can scream.
Together, this unlikely trio must navigate a landscape of stalled Teslas and shattered cities to reach the Iron Mountain facility in Colorado. They are being hunted by a high-tech army that made one fatal mistake: they assumed America couldn't fight back without a battery.
The grid is down. The war is analog. And Knox Hargreaves just shifted into gear.
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