About This Book
About Sleeper Code
Every nation depends on invisible systems. Power, water, finance, transportation—all bound together by unseen networks humming beneath the surface. When those systems fail, society cracks. When they are sabotaged, it shatters.
In Sleeper Code, Kevin McGuire lifts the lid on a war already being fought inside our own infrastructure. Max Shaw, a seasoned but quietly haunted operations officer at the National Infrastructure Protection Agency, thinks he’s seen every cyber threat imaginable. But a faint anomaly on his screen leads him into a labyrinth of compromised firmware, tampered supply chains, and thousands of “sleeping” instructions embedded deep inside America’s critical systems—code designed to wait patiently, then strike without warning.
As Shaw and his team trace faint digital fingerprints across the Midwest, the mystery expands outward: a string of unexplained malfunctions, raids on unmarked server farms, insider leaks, and a foreign adversary whose reach crosses borders and bureaucracies alike. Hospitals flicker into darkness. Water supplies turn suspect. Entire transportation hubs grind to a halt. Each clue reveals not a lone attack but a carefully seeded network of silent weapons—an operation years in the making.
With time running out and official channels paralyzed by politics and denial, Shaw is forced to make impossible choices: whom to trust, what to reveal, and how far to go to stop a threat no one can see but everyone will feel. The deeper he digs, the more he discovers that the real battleground isn’t just code and servers but human loyalties, ethics, and the quiet decisions that determine whether a nation stands or falls.
Blending pulse-pounding action with authentic details of modern cyberwarfare, Sleeper Code is a thriller for our connected age. It raises unsettling questions about the security of our systems, the potential damage one unseen adversary can inflict, and the cost of fighting back when the battlefield is everywhere.
