Eleven Seconds

di Mike Drake (Autore)

M.J. Yehia, 2026

Eleven Seconds A US Navy oiler steams through the Strait of Hormuz on a routine transit. The integrated bridge system reports steady course. The gyro compass reads true. But on the port wing, a brass magnetic compass begins to drift—one degree, then two, then six—while the ship's digital instruments hold their lie. A young sonar technician hears something wrong in the water. An engineman feels the turn in the deck plates before any screen confirms it. Eleven seconds too late, the collision comes: forty-eight thousand tons of steel against an Iranian Kilo-class submarine. Fifty-seven sailors lost. Two navies pointing fingers. And a digital record that says none of it happened. As a small working group of intelligence analysts races to uncover the truth, they find themselves hunting not a rogue state, but a conspiracy buried inside the very systems meant to keep the seas safe—a network of money, software, and betrayal that spans from Washington to Tehran to a quiet library in Stockholm. And at the center of it all, a brass compass that cannot be hacked, cannot be rewritten, and will not lie. Eleven Seconds is a geopolitical technical thriller about the instruments we trust, the ones we forget, and the difference between what a machine reports and what a human knows.

• Autore: Mike Drake
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: M.J. Yehia
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233269950