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The Last Call
Paperback
Series: Last Call, Book 1
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 20 2025
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.16
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a disturbingly near future, humanity finally exhales: wars recede, crises are managed, and borders blur under an irresistible promise of unity. Everything looks ordered. Everything works. Everything fits.
Until you start to see the cost.
A global intelligence named Maia, a biometric identity network known as SHIN, and a leader capable of igniting crowds-Dael Elyon-offer harmony, security, and purpose. The Graphene Triad becomes the emblem of a new civil faith: sleek, scientific, seductive. A sign of belonging. A seal of trust. A passport into a frictionless life.
At the heart of the system comes the technological leap that changes everything: the Graphene Mark as a total-identity interface. A standard cited in documents and terms of service-WO2020060606-drives neural integration: carbon micro-implants, cognitive bands, wearables that synchronize presence, health, access, and finance into a single signature. The promise is simple and perfect: instant verification, seamless borders, priority medical care, settled debt, global events- a life recognized by the world before you even say your name. And as adoption grows through incentives, the architecture behind it becomes more intimate: patterns, emotions, beliefs... everything enters the measurable field.
But beneath that polished peace, something fractures: an impossible event cuts the planet's continuity. In a single instant, thousands of signals go dark and people vanish as if reality had been edited. Alex Volko, a data analyst in Tallinn, detects a temporal signature that feels unnervingly familiar-and links it to the greatest modern mystery: Flight MH370, a disappearance that left unanswered questions and a rising suspicion of doors hidden in the physics of the world. The rapture stops being a metaphor in forgotten forums and becomes a pattern-on graphs, on cameras, in silences no official report can tame.
THE LAST CALL drops you into a technological and spiritual thriller where every breakthrough carries an invisible tether-and the true battlefield lies inside the human heart.
You'll follow four characters as they collide with a flawless machine:
Alex Volko, a data analyst in Tallinn, who uncovers patterns pointing to an architecture built to control as much as to save.
Priya, a brilliant engineer, who feels the system she helped build begin to shape collective consciousness... and her own.
Elena, a scientist in Turin, who faces an enigma that defies every simulation: the image of a crucified man imprinted on an ancient cloth, as if it came from another layer of reality.
Father Pietro Ferraro, a country priest guided by faith and his reverence for the Shroud of Turin, who sows warnings with the calm of a man who knows time is running short.
As a new mark becomes normalized for buying, selling, and accessing services, a Temple rises in Jerusalem before the world's cameras... and one question becomes unavoidable: what if this story was already written?
Inspired by themes from Revelation, THE LAST CALL launches a high-voltage saga of awakening, deception, and the first great global rupture. When harmony becomes an idol and access becomes obedience, one final voice dares to break the system's spell.
If you're drawn to stories of realistic conspiracy, prophetic tension, unsettling technology, and decisions that cost everything, this book is for you.
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