The Deep Surge (Echoes of Genius #1)

The most dangerous man in 2025 is three hundred years old.

When disgraced MIT physicist Piper Ronstaat uncovers a high-voltage mystery buried for three million years, she sparks a war over the future of human energy. But the key to the puzzle isn't hidden in a lab; it's locked inside the mind of America's original polymath.

Benjamin Franklin is back.

Drawn across the centuries by a 1.6 THz harmonic hidden in his own DNA, a "biological handshake" with the Earth that never truly ended, Franklin must adapt to a world where electricity is no longer a discovery, but a weapon.

THE STAKES

A ruthless corporate empire has uncovered the 'Deep Surge, ' a power source that could sustain civilization or melt the planet's crust. To stabilize it, Piper and Franklin must solve the Judas a materials science crisis where the margin between clean energy and a volcanic cataclysm is exactly 15 microns.

THE JUNTO

Targeted by a global surveillance state and systematically erased by a digital 'Grey Rot, ' this ragtag team of fugitives must outmaneuver digital assassins and solve a 300-year-old cipher hidden in the original Poor Richard's Almanack.

Wit clashing with greed. 18th-century genius vs. 21st-century warfare.

Released for America's 250th anniversary, Echoes of The Deep Surge is a pulse-pounding technothriller for fans of Michael Crichton's scientific dread, Steve Berry's historical conspiracies, and the puzzle-box pacing of The Da Vinci Code.

It asks the ultimate Would our Founding Fathers even recognize, or survive, the Republic they built?