The VanderBilt Deception - Part 1: A Chilling Pursuit of the Chosen (The VanderBilt Trilogy #2)

The Watchers are free. The world did not survive it.

Six months after the events of The Tartarus Conspiracy, the apocalypse Amanda VanderBilt fought to prevent has arrived. The Mahdi rules from a desecrated Vatican. Sacred texts burn in public squares. Governments no longer protect their citizens — they hunt them on behalf of forces that were never human.

Amanda survived the first collapse. She was never supposed to. Branded at the genetic level by a device recovered before civilisation fell, she follows a dead man's encrypted trail through frozen Finnish wilderness toward a forgotten Scottish castle — and toward a forbidden truth hidden within her own bloodline.

But Amanda is only one piece of a much larger puzzle.

In the Philippines — a disgraced special forces Colonel is forced back into service by the one man he holds responsible for everything that went wrong.

In India — a young blogger intercepts a transmission from the last surviving intelligence of a destroyed ancient order.

In the Arabian Sea — Kian Ishfani fights to protect his family aboard a refugee yacht, until a rescue mission delivers him into a trap designed to turn his death into the Mahdi's greatest propaganda victory.

Four lives. Four missions. One conspiracy stretching across centuries, bloodlines, Enochian mythology, and the hidden foundations of human history. Because the ancient order — the Tagma Lumis — is gone. What they were protecting is not.

What was once buried to protect humanity may now be the only thing capable of saving it.

The VanderBilt Deception expands the VanderBilt Trilogy into post-apocalyptic geopolitical thriller territory — multiple POV, global scale, and the hard science fiction and military thriller elements that readers of Tom Clancy, Joel Rosenberg, and Amir Tsarfati will recognise.

4.7★

Perfect for fans of: Joel Rosenberg · Tom Clancy · Amir Tsarfati · Brad Thor · Jack Carr · James Rollins · Frank Peretti · post-apocalyptic fiction · Enochian mythology · supernatural thriller · military thriller · geopolitical thriller

Book 2 of the VanderBilt Trilogy | Begin with Book 1: The Tartarus Conspiracy
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