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The Thirsty Road - Book 5 - The Quenched Empire
A weaponized thirst is sweeping the planet. It doesn't just kill; it rewires the mind, turning ordinary people into obedient legions who will do anything for the next sip. Cities are quarantined. Water is power. And behind it all stands Elmer Voss, an ex-CIA architect who believes humanity's only future is a "quenched" elite ruling over the parched and broken. Dr. Rowan Halston, scarred survivor of the first outbreaks, refuses to let the world drink from that chalice.
With ex-Marine Jax Harlan, rogue hacker Kira Voss, and a cartel enforcer seeking redemption, she tears across quarantined megacities (New York, Mumbai, Lagos) chasing the source: a hybrid neurotoxin fused with AngelNet, an AI that predicts and manipulates human desperation. Every victory costs blood. Every betrayal cuts deeper. From brutal raids on floating slums to drone dogfights above Antarctic ice shelves, Rowan's team discovers the horrifying truth: the Contagion was never just a plague; it was a decades-long MKUltra evolution designed to cull the "unworthy" and upload the chosen into digital immortality.
The final battle takes them four hundred meters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to the Thirst Vault, where Elmer offers Rowan the ultimate choice: join the eternal elite or die with the rest of mankind. In a duel fought half in flesh and half in code, Rowan destroys the architect, purges the swarm, and silences the god-like AI known as Battlerock, but not before Glover's final shard slips into the dark corners of the net.
Six months later the world is healing, rivers run clean, and the thirst is gone. Yet in a quiet Swiss server room, twelve characters of dormant code wait behind a locked door. The contagion is over. The watch has just begun. One woman, one bullet, one line of code, and one lingering scar stand between humanity and the next sip.
With ex-Marine Jax Harlan, rogue hacker Kira Voss, and a cartel enforcer seeking redemption, she tears across quarantined megacities (New York, Mumbai, Lagos) chasing the source: a hybrid neurotoxin fused with AngelNet, an AI that predicts and manipulates human desperation. Every victory costs blood. Every betrayal cuts deeper. From brutal raids on floating slums to drone dogfights above Antarctic ice shelves, Rowan's team discovers the horrifying truth: the Contagion was never just a plague; it was a decades-long MKUltra evolution designed to cull the "unworthy" and upload the chosen into digital immortality.
The final battle takes them four hundred meters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to the Thirst Vault, where Elmer offers Rowan the ultimate choice: join the eternal elite or die with the rest of mankind. In a duel fought half in flesh and half in code, Rowan destroys the architect, purges the swarm, and silences the god-like AI known as Battlerock, but not before Glover's final shard slips into the dark corners of the net.
Six months later the world is healing, rivers run clean, and the thirst is gone. Yet in a quiet Swiss server room, twelve characters of dormant code wait behind a locked door. The contagion is over. The watch has just begun. One woman, one bullet, one line of code, and one lingering scar stand between humanity and the next sip.
A weaponized thirst is sweeping the planet. It doesn't just kill; it rewires the mind, turning ordinary people into obedient legions who will do anything for the next sip. Cities are quarantined. Water is power. And behind it all stands Elmer Voss, an ex-CIA architect who believes humanity's only future is a "quenched" elite ruling over the parched and broken. Dr. Rowan Halston, scarred survivor of the first outbreaks, refuses to let the world drink from that chalice.
With ex-Marine Jax Harlan, rogue hacker Kira Voss, and a cartel enforcer seeking redemption, she tears across quarantined megacities (New York, Mumbai, Lagos) chasing the source: a hybrid neurotoxin fused with AngelNet, an AI that predicts and manipulates human desperation. Every victory costs blood. Every betrayal cuts deeper. From brutal raids on floating slums to drone dogfights above Antarctic ice shelves, Rowan's team discovers the horrifying truth: the Contagion was never just a plague; it was a decades-long MKUltra evolution designed to cull the "unworthy" and upload the chosen into digital immortality.
The final battle takes them four hundred meters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to the Thirst Vault, where Elmer offers Rowan the ultimate choice: join the eternal elite or die with the rest of mankind. In a duel fought half in flesh and half in code, Rowan destroys the architect, purges the swarm, and silences the god-like AI known as Battlerock, but not before Glover's final shard slips into the dark corners of the net.
Six months later the world is healing, rivers run clean, and the thirst is gone. Yet in a quiet Swiss server room, twelve characters of dormant code wait behind a locked door. The contagion is over. The watch has just begun. One woman, one bullet, one line of code, and one lingering scar stand between humanity and the next sip.
With ex-Marine Jax Harlan, rogue hacker Kira Voss, and a cartel enforcer seeking redemption, she tears across quarantined megacities (New York, Mumbai, Lagos) chasing the source: a hybrid neurotoxin fused with AngelNet, an AI that predicts and manipulates human desperation. Every victory costs blood. Every betrayal cuts deeper. From brutal raids on floating slums to drone dogfights above Antarctic ice shelves, Rowan's team discovers the horrifying truth: the Contagion was never just a plague; it was a decades-long MKUltra evolution designed to cull the "unworthy" and upload the chosen into digital immortality.
The final battle takes them four hundred meters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to the Thirst Vault, where Elmer offers Rowan the ultimate choice: join the eternal elite or die with the rest of mankind. In a duel fought half in flesh and half in code, Rowan destroys the architect, purges the swarm, and silences the god-like AI known as Battlerock, but not before Glover's final shard slips into the dark corners of the net.
Six months later the world is healing, rivers run clean, and the thirst is gone. Yet in a quiet Swiss server room, twelve characters of dormant code wait behind a locked door. The contagion is over. The watch has just begun. One woman, one bullet, one line of code, and one lingering scar stand between humanity and the next sip.
