Red Line

RED LINE

by Evan Calder

The world didn't end with bombs.

It ended with policies.

As global conflict escalates, governments deploy a neurological deterrent designed to incapacitate populations without mass casualties. It works-by destroying higher cognition and turning the infected into violent predators. To contain the fallout, authorities activate Red Line: a protocol that abandons entire regions by cutting power, infrastructure, and communication.

Ethan Cole is a utility specialist who knows how systems fail. When Red Line expands, he is recruited to enforce it-manually shutting down cities that are still alive. Hospitals. Shelters. Communities that shouldn't exist according to the plan.

As the lights go out, the truth becomes a liability.

The infected are not the greatest threat.
The war is not the real disaster.
The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Red Line is a dark, realistic apocalyptic thriller about infrastructure collapse, information control, and the quiet ways the world agrees to forget itself.

This is Book One of the Red Line series.