The Quantum Sword (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. The Signal didn't just kill the power. It killed the future.John Hammond is the 'Million-pound Detective'-a specialist in forensic strategy called in only when the cost of failure is absolute. After a squad of soldiers is killed during a classified experiment, the pattern takes a terrifying turn: now, the researchers are dying mysteriously, leaving no forensic trace.There are no wounds. No biological markers. No digital footprints. They are being hunted by an unseen killer-a force that leaves only impossible 'Forensic Nulls' where the physical evidence of its victims has been erased from reality.As tensions escalate, Hammond is caught in the eye of a global storm. With NATO and the US watching as silent, desperate observers, the UK's critical infrastructure is screaming toward a total blackout. The grid is failing, and the biting air of the North is about to be replaced by the blinding heat of 'Nuclear Fire'.In a race against a Quantum Back-surge in the grid, Hammond must work against time to find the answer. If he cannot solve the mystery of the Nulls and uncover who is behind it, England and beyond will be incinerated, leaving only the silence of a total collapse.Some signals are meant to stay buried. This one is coming for us all. 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
- The Quantum Sword (Paperback)
- Author
- Colin Isard
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798241711090
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: The Hammond & Raven Detective Series
THE STATE CALLED IT PROJECT VECTOR. MORDRAKE CALLED IT A WEAPON. JOHN HAMMOND CALLED IT A CRIME SCENE.
Professor Mordrake’s Project Meridian sought to harmonise society’s increasing electromagnetic emissions with Earth’s magnetic field to protect human bioresonance from this debilitating interplay. When its research was stolen by the shadowy Project Vector, those discoveries were transformed into a devastating Pulsed Energy Projectile—a weapon whose first test killed ten soldiers, including Mordrake’s son. Months later, Mordrake himself died under suspicious circumstances.
Now, as the scientists behind Project Vector begin dying one by one, a reality-tearing “Hole in the World” has opened in Derbyshire’s High Peak. With NATO and US intelligence pressuring the UK government for answers, MI5 turns to Dr John Hammond—a brilliant former DCI whose logical genius and refusal to play politics have left him operating as an expensive but indispensable ghost. Assisted by Assistant Chief Constable Richard Raven, Hammond uncovers the ultimate threat:
the Quantum Sword—an AI-driven biomechanical hybrid that has infiltrated the National Grid through nanoscopic Syncbots, turning Britain’s own infrastructure into a weapon.
As the murders escalate and the infection spreads through subsea interconnectors into mainland Europe, power grids across the continent face imminent collapse. With reality itself beginning to fray and millions at risk, a desperate government sees a nuclear strike as the only way to bury decades of state secrets. To stop it, Hammond must
combine cutting-edge physics with razor-sharp detective work before a catastrophic back-surge tears reality apart.
Physics doesn’t take sides. The Sword doesn’t miss.
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