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BLACKOUT DOCTRINE

Nine weeks after a coordinated EMP attack kills the American power grid, Staff Sergeant Kael Brogan leads twelve National Guard soldiers through post-collapse Appalachia, escorting a vaccine convoy on a sixty-mile run through lawless hollows. The cargo is irreplaceable. The cold chain is dying. The chain of command went silent eleven days ago.

Then his radio catches a distress call from a besieged hydroelectric dam forty miles off route. An armed cult wants to open the spillway gates and drown eleven hundred people in the valley below. Brogan's orders say deliver the vaccines. His conscience says answer the call. He cannot do both without splitting his squad in half and sending each piece into a fight it was never built to survive.

Blackout Doctrine is a small-unit military thriller that puts impossible choices in the hands of exhausted soldiers operating without resupply, without communication, and without the luxury of a right answer. For readers who love the tactical grit of William Alan Webb and the moral weight of hard decisions made when the world stops pretending to be civilized.