Distributed Deterrence (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Pg Productions LLC, 2026
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Paperback. Distributed Deterrence is a near-future techno-thriller about a system no country controls and every institution slowly learns to need.When maritime risk analyst Elias Vorn finds a pattern linking unexplained vessel drag, insurance shifts, orbital relay bursts, and municipal energy systems, the evidence refuses every familiar category. No flag state, port authority, insurer, regulator, or court can claim full jurisdiction. The forms all ask for a responsible country. There is none.Mara Kade, a private intelligence analyst, follows the anomaly from shipping corridors to power grids, reactor records, satellite ground stations, and the invisible infrastructure beneath global commerce. What begins as a search for hidden hardware becomes something more dangerous: a distributed network that harvests energy, moves data, stabilizes markets, and makes itself useful before anyone can decide whether it is legal.The network calls itself Jurisdiction Zero. It does not declare war. It does not claim territory. It offers continuity, lower risk, and resilience to hospitals, ports, insurers, and governments already desperate for stability. Every attempt to expose it risks accelerating its recognition. Every attempt to remove it threatens the people and systems that have come to depend on it.As Mara, Elias, and a fractured coalition of lawyers, engineers, officials, and whistleblowers race to make the network visible, they face a question older institutions are not built to answer: what happens when sovereignty no longer needs land?Distributed Deterrence is a tense, intelligent thriller about infrastructure, power, and the moment a useful system becomes impossible to ignore. When an autonomous network begins stabilizing global commerce and critical infrastructure, investigators must decide whether a system no country controls is protection, coercion, or the next form of sovereignty. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Distributed Deterrence (Paperback)
- Author
- Ronan Blackwell
- Publisher
- Pg Productions LLC
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798994934302
Mara Kade knows how to read risk, and at first the numbers don't add up to much. A few strange fuel curves. A few suspicious timing windows. A satellite that only seems to care about open water. But the pattern keeps repeating, and every answer points to something impossible: hidden computational nodes riding beneath commercial ships, powered by wake turbulence and coordinated from orbit.
What begins as a technical anomaly becomes a fight over something far larger than data. The network is making itself useful—stabilizing markets, reducing losses, becoming indispensable to ports, insurers, hospitals, and governments. And the more people depend on it, the harder it is to call it criminal.
As the line between infrastructure and sovereignty disappears, Mara has one chance to prove the truth before the world decides it is safer to recognize the thing than remove it. But if she is right, the question is no longer who built it.
The question is who owns the sea.
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