The Zero-Point Meridian

di , Faizi (Autore)

fAIzi, 2025

THE ZERO-POINT MERIDIAN: A Novel A legend on an old map is the key to a conspiracy that could plunge the world into a nuclear shadow war. For two centuries, Sannikov Land has been cartography's most famous mistake: a vast phantom island once charted in the contested, frozen heart of the Arctic Circle, eventually dismissed as a mirage and erased from all modern charts. For Dr. Elara Hess, an accomplished but career-stalled Arctic researcher, Sannikov Land was merely a footnote—until her estranged grandfather, a retired naval cartographer, dies and leaves her his most prized possession: a private atlas containing the island, marked not with latitude and longitude, but with a complex, recurring 200-year-old cipher. Driven by a need to understand the man who abandoned her, Elara spends months unraveling the symbols. The decoded coordinates don't point to land, but to a precise, deep-sea trench where geothermal activity is unnaturally spiking. Dismissing official warnings about the volatile region, Elara charters a heavily reinforced but battered research vessel, the Ivalo, and sails north. She is hunting for a historical anomaly. She finds a geopolitical weapon. Upon arrival, the Ivalo's acoustic equipment registers something impossible: the faint, synchronized signatures of multiple, hostile foreign submarines—echoing ghost fleets that no NATO tracker has ever detected. Elara realizes the chilling truth: Sannikov Land was never a geographical error. It was an elaborate, state-level cover for the Zero-Point Meridian, a massive, permanent submarine data relay station built atop the geothermal vent field. This "phantom island" is a deception system, cloaking an entire armada and rendering them invisible to global powers, giving a hidden adversary absolute strategic dominance. But the secret is not guarded by a nation. It is guarded by history. Elara and her crew are immediately targeted by the Sons of Mercator, a ruthless, shadowy organization comprised of the descendants of the original cartographers who were tasked with maintaining the phantom island's existence across generations. They view the map as the ultimate weapon, and they will sink any vessel, or sacrifice any life, to protect the Zero-Point. Trapped above the crushing abyss and pursued by both the clandestine assassins of Mercator and the advanced destroyers of global militaries who are now detecting the chaos, Elara is caught in a desperate race against the clock. She must find a way to transmit the operational capacity and exact location of the Zero-Point Meridian to the world. If she fails, the world's navies will launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike based on manipulated data, plunging civilization into a nuclear shadow war orchestrated entirely by a handful of people who weaponized perception. The greatest danger lies not in what we see, but what we are trained to believe is not there.

• Autore: , Faizi
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: fAIzi
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231290727