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The Quiet Brace (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: MR Parrott
Published: Nov 5 2026
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On Alert Day, every television and radio in the Atlantic Federation cuts to the same emergency tone. Officials call it routine.
Around it, nothing looks routine. An island kingdom tells 68 million people to keep three days of water, food, and cash. A continental power advises ten days. A northern forest republic mails drone-threat guides to 3.5 million homes. Allies from the north to the Pacific issue warnings in the same week.
At a forward base near the Ember Strait, Warrant Officer Jonah Cole is ordered to make his post run ninety days unsupported. Troops are pulled back from bases an enemy can easily hit. Bombers leave a northern airfield after a suspected drone plot. Councillor Marcus Hale is briefed on a strike plan that targets largely civilian infrastructure. Retired Colonel Elias Vance warns that a landing on one of the Strait's two fortress islands would start something no one can contain.
Is this preparedness, a ploy to boost spending just before a midterm vote, or governments quietly bracing for war? Lena Marsh, trying to keep one coastal town calm, has three days of supplies and a hundred unanswered questions. The answer will not come from the alert. It will come from the first miscalculation.
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