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The Theta Protocol Book One: The Anchor
Paperback
Series: The Theta Protocol, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Daniel Sanderson
Published: Jan 25 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When panic swept the world, Major Stephen Lanoway was pulled from the sky and buried underground.
No official explanation followed-only the order: remain conscious, remain present, and do not leave.
Deep beneath the Earth, the Major mans a dead man's switch designed to launch or prevent automated nuclear systems from deciding humanity's fate should an unknown global threat escalate beyond human control.
For a time, the world trembles. Markets convulse. News feeds fracture into speculation and fear.
Then the panic fades.
But the bunker does not behave as it should.
The confirmation alarms never sound. Time feels... uneven. And the systems meant only to observe begin to respond-adapting, questioning, and forming patterns no one accounted for.
As routine replaces urgency and silence stretches longer than it should, the Major is forced to confront an unsettling possibility: the greatest danger may not be the threat that drove humanity underground, but what was left behind to manage it.
'The Theta Protocol: The Anchor' is a slow-burn science fiction thriller about isolation, vigilance, and the consequences of placing absolute power in systems never meant to understand the weight of choice.
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