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Victory's Shadow: The Cost of Victory - Volume 1 of 3
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 3 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a war that has already been lost, one final contingency changes everything.
Victory's Shadow is a gripping near-future thriller that explores the terrifying cost of desperation. When General Preston Sloane authorizes Project LAZARUS - a synthetic biological weapon designed to destabilize the enemy through animal vectors and behavioral collapse - the Atlantic Concord believes they have bought time.
They were wrong.
What begins as a targeted release quickly evolves beyond control, spreading neurological disinhibition, aggression, and systemic breakdown faster than any model predicted. As the front lines crumble and victory is declared, a silent contagion takes hold - one that no containment protocol, information suppression, or strategic denial can stop.
From the sterile war rooms of Strategic Command to the fracturing streets of collapsing cities, this first volume of The Cost of Victory trilogy follows the key players confronting the consequences of their choices: the general who signed the order, the scientist who warned against it, the information officer tasked with burying the truth, and the journalist racing to expose it before the record itself is erased.
Blending military techno-thriller with chilling epidemiological horror, Victory's Shadow examines the thin line between survival and self-destruction, the fragility of truth in wartime, and the horrifying adaptability of a system designed to break the enemy - only to turn inward.
For readers of The Andromeda Strain, World War Z, and The Three-Body Problem - a stark warning wrapped in relentless tension.
The war ended in hours. The nightmare had just begun.
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