Aftershocks

Book 2 in the Cold Veil Saga

De: Donny Muse

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city still trembles from the aftershocks of history — but the ground beneath it is about to move again.

Weeks after dismantling Blackwake’s Project Nocturne in Havana, Beau Caliber is sent into the heart of Europe to investigate Project Richter — a Soviet-era seismic destabilization program rumored to have been resurrected. Officially, the technology was for mining. Unofficially, it was designed to trigger catastrophic tremors near missile silos, potentially disabling nuclear launch failsafes. Now, whispers suggest Blackwake is perfecting it beneath Berlin’s streets.

Caliber’s investigation leads him into the underbelly of the city — from abandoned Stasi bunkers to secret clubs where information flows with the champagne. Here, he crosses paths with Viktor Malenkov, a former KGB spymaster turned Blackwake strategist. Cold-eyed and methodical, Malenkov views Berlin not as a city but as a chessboard — and Caliber is the piece he intends to remove.

As Beau races to uncover the seismic arrays’ location, he discovers an alarming development: Blackwake operatives possess intelligence about him that only a trusted source could have provided. The deeper he digs, the more the shadow of his father — and his mysterious past — looms over the mission.

When the ground beneath Berlin literally begins to tremble, Caliber must navigate crumbling tunnels, betrayals, and a high-speed chase through the city’s rain-slick streets. The final showdown pits him against Malenkov in a subterranean chamber where the Richter system is primed for its first real-world test.

In the chaos, Caliber escapes with critical intel — a partial blueprint of Blackwake’s ultimate plan to seize control of the Dead Hand nuclear command system. But the tremors he leaves behind are more than seismic… they shake the foundations of who he can trust.