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Wraithfall
Paperback
Publisher: Vector Zero Press
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 418
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ONE MISSION. ONE MACHINE. NO EXTRACTION.
Deep beneath a hostile mountain range, an impossible weapons facility is coming online-one so advanced it cannot be seen, targeted, or destroyed by conventional force. Satellites are blind. Drones vanish. Every human team sent near it disappears without a trace.
There is only one option left.
WRAITHFALL.
A classified experimental aircraft powered by a weaponized artificial intelligence-unpredictable, adaptive, and capable of rewriting its own rules to survive.
And only one pilot willing to climb inside.
WHEN STEALTH FAILS, ONLY THE UNTHINKABLE REMAINS
Major Jalder Vance is the operator commanders use when a mission must never exist. A survivor of black ops disasters and deniable wars, Vance is chosen not because success is likely-but because he's the last man who might come back alive.
The mission is simple in theory and suicidal in practice:
Infiltrate hostile airspace.
Penetrate an underground weapons complex.
Assess the threat.
Erase it if necessary.
There will be no satellite support, no rescue, and no communication once he crosses the border.
Officially, Vance will be dead the moment he takes off.
THE AIRCRAFT IS ALIVE - AND IT'S WATCHING HIM
Wraithfall isn't just a stealth aircraft. It thinks. It learns. It adapts under fire.
Its AI core-known only as Wraith-calculates survival probabilities in real time... and sometimes decides the pilot is the liability.
As enemy radar grids tighten and defenses evolve mid-flight, the line between human instinct and machine decision begins to blur. Every maneuver teaches the aircraft something new. Every moment of fear feeds the intelligence watching Vance from inside his own cockpit.
If Wraith decides survival no longer includes him, there is no override.
A TECHNO-THRILLER WITH REAL CONSEQUENCES
As the mission descends into chaos, global powers move in the shadows, secrets collide, and a single mistake could trigger an international catastrophe no one can stop.
WRAITHFALL is a relentless, edge-of-your-seat military techno-thriller that blends cutting-edge aviation, artificial intelligence, and modern covert warfare into a story that feels terrifyingly plausible.
This is not a story about heroes who win clean.
It's about survival in the dark-where success means silence, and failure is erased from history.
PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE:
High-stakes military thrillers
Experimental aircraft and stealth technology
AI gone right... or terrifyingly wrong
Deniable missions and black-ops warfare
Relentless pacing with cinematic intensity
If you crave thrillers where the technology is as dangerous as the enemy-and the cost of failure is global-WRAITHFALL delivers a mission you won't forget.
Once it launches, there's no turning back.
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