The Kill Chain: A Pathos Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798198346345)

The world's most powerful governments built hidden systems to survive catastrophe.
Then someone taught those systems how to turn against them.
When intelligence reports reveal a coordinated plot targeting the President of the United States, the British Prime Minister, and the German Chancellor, the CIA sends only one man capable of moving through the shadows beneath global power.
Pathos.
Born in Bulgaria. Forged through smuggling routes, betrayal, and survival. A man who understands hidden systems because he once lived inside them.
What begins as a hunt for a terrorist network quickly becomes something far more dangerous.
A covert organization known as Black Meridian isn't trying to destroy governments with bombs or armies.
It's using fear to weaponize the emergency systems designed to protect them.
As leadership movement corridors collapse, continuity networks fracture, and NATO's hidden infrastructure begins turning inward under pressure, Pathos uncovers the terrifying truth:
The real target was never political leaders.
It was trust itself.
Now, with the world sliding toward coordinated paralysis and global systems learning how to centralize power automatically under crisis conditions, Pathos must decide how far he's willing to go to stop a machine already teaching itself how to survive.
Because sometimes saving the system means destroying the thing holding it together.
A razor-wire geopolitical thriller about power, infrastructure, fear, and the hidden mechanisms controlling the modern world.


Author: K. Bruce Weddel
ISBN-13: 9798198346345
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2026
Pages: 426
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d