War of the Machines: AI Drones Unleashed The Silent Siege: Land of the Falling Sun, (Paperback)

<p><i>They were already here. You just couldn't see them.</i></p><p>Forty thousand autonomous drones, disguised within civilian shipping and positioned over every critical target in the continental United States. No soldiers. No declaration. No warning. Just a sixty-second broadcast from Admiral Zheng Wei - and a seventy-two-hour clock.</p><p>When the ultimatum hits every screen in America simultaneously, President Calloway and his national security team face a nightmare with no playbook: a weapon system that can't be targeted, a command network that can't be hacked, and a deadline that can't be negotiated. The drones aren't attacking. They're waiting. And the waiting is the weapon.</p><p>The only path forward runs through a cargo ship forty miles off the Virginia coast - the <i>Hai Lang</i>, carrying the drone network's master control node and a nuclear fail-safe designed to erase fourteen American cities if China loses control of the operation.</p><p>Lieutenant Sarah Monroe has seventy-two hours, a four-person team, and a fifty-two-year-old former DARPA scientist with a bad knee. Dr. Ian Talbot built the architecture that became this weapon. He knows where it breaks. What he doesn't know is whether someone on the other side has been trying to help them - and whether that someone will still be alive when they get there.</p><p><i>The Silent Siege: Land of the Falling Sun</i> is a pulse-pounding military techno-thriller about the war that starts before anyone fires a shot - fought in shipping manifests and synchronization pulses and the fifteen-second gap between defeat and survival.</p><p><b>The prequel to</b> <i>The Silent Siege: Rise of the Red Horizon</i> <b>- Book One of the Silent Siege Series.</b></p><p><b>For readers of military thrillers, techno-fiction, and near-future geopolitical action.</b></p>

• War of the Machines: AI Drones Unleashed The Silent Siege: Land of the Falling Sun, (Paperback)
• Author: Robert Geissler
• ISBN: 9798180875501
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-09
• Page Count: 76