{"product_id":"operation-sascha-maigatter-9798181509269","title":"Operation: Vanguard - The Vanguard Directive","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an alternate Cold War, the underground agency Vanguard fights a hidden battle against anomalous threats. Leo Vance, a kinetic-absorbing operative from Brooklyn, and Maya Rostova, a powerful telekinetic defector from the Soviet Red Star program, are thrust into a desperate mission. When a Soviet launch puts the first piece of Project Icarus into orbit, the stakes become global. The Soviet leader, an Anomaly named Volkov, plans to use a satellite network to broadcast the \"Mind Fracture\"-a frequency designed to overwrite human consciousness and create a unified, mindless hive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetrayed by their own Deputy Director, Arthur Thorne, Vanguard is left shattered and operating in the dark. Guided by their veteran Director, Sterling, Leo and Maya must infiltrate a Kazakh black site and ultimately hijack an experimental shuttle, the Daedalus, to breach the orbital command core, Zarya-Seven. Facing zero-gravity combat, elite Anomaly-powered cosmonauts, and their own past traumas, Leo and Maya must sacrifice everything to pull Volkov's artificial sun down from the sky and save humanity's free will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sascha Maigatter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181509269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Sascha Maigatter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173689303295,"sku":"9798181509269","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7b5108f-d699-43b1-bd90-b0a1ad479889.jpg?v=1788955989","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/operation-sascha-maigatter-9798181509269","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}