{"product_id":"key-to-the-abyss-k-a-9798243629942","title":"Key To The Abyss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pulse-pounding thriller of ancient physics and modern survival.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh in the frozen hell of the Karakoram mountains, a secret older than the Cold War is waking up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElias Thorne is a man of \"practiced economy\" and \"mechanical hunger,\" a survival specialist who understands the physics of a kill better than the company of people. When he is sent to extract Anya Varma from a besieged mountain monastery, he finds more than just a woman in hiding. Beneath her skin lies the \u003cb\u003eJade Compass\u003c\/b\u003e-a biological map to the \u003cb\u003eWorld-Clock\u003c\/b\u003e, a subterranean machine with the power to rewrite the laws of physics or reset the planet's magnetic heartbeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the vertical glass sheets of the Himalayas to the \"oily expanse\" of the Caspian Sea and the high-tech fortresses of the Aegean, Thorne and Anya are hunted by \u003cb\u003eThe Consortium\u003c\/b\u003e-a global shadow-force that views the world as a broken machine in need of a violent restart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the tectonic plates begin to \"groan like living things,\" Thorne must use every improvised engineering trick and high-velocity round in his arsenal to protect the \"Living-Archive\". In a world of \"steel and sacrifice,\" they are the only sentinels standing between civilization and total liquefaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterpiece of tactical economy and atmospheric dread.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. A\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798243629942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"K. A","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50664895054079,"sku":"9798243629942","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/key-to-the-abyss-k-a-9798243629942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}