Free Download The seventh hour protocol (Historical War) by Anshuman Mishra
English | October 8, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FVFF7Z3P | 138 pages | EPUB | 0.59 Mb
The year is 1983. The world, already taut with Cold War anxiety, is holding its breath as the Central Asian proxy conflict between Western-aligned forces and the militant Red Crescent faction reaches a terrifying apex. This is a war of attrition fought in shadows and forgotten deserts, but on a crisp autumn evening, the battleground shifts violently to the sky, transforming a routine commercial flight into a flashpoint for global catastrophe.
International Flight 701, en route from the financial pulse of New York City to the ancient cradle of Athens, is not just a commercial vessel; it is a meticulously calculated target. Aboard are 250 souls, a microcosm of the world's power structure and vulnerability. Among them is Ethan Albright, the privileged, twenty-year-old son of a powerful American Senator, whose presence on the flight makes the political stakes almost impossibly high. There is also Ahmed Kassim, a quiet, observant journalist with deep, conflicted ties to the region, and Eliza Hayes, a diplomat carrying sensitive-though non-military-documents. These passengers, along with the flight crew led by the weary but resolute Captain Javier Solano, represent the democratic world's fragile order.
The sense of normalcy shatters violently over the vast, darkened expanse of the Middle East. The takeover is not a chaotic frenzy but a display of terrifying, cold discipline. Four operatives of The Red Crescent, led by the utterly formidable Zafar, emerge from the cabin. Zafar is not a raving zealot but a man trained in the calculus of war and psychological terror; his control is immediate, absolute, and chillingly quiet. The first sign of resistance is met with a swift, brutal consequence-a precise act that establishes the stakes and silences dissent. All onboard communication is immediately severed, plunging the command center into a frightening blackout of intelligence. Zafar forces Captain Solano to deviate south, bypassing commercial routes and known air corridors, heading toward an unknown, clandestine destination.
The landing is desperate. Solano puts the massive jet down on the cracked, isolated concrete of a long-abandoned military airbase in Zaharan, a desert nation strategically situated on the fault line of the geopolitical conflict. Zaharan's local government, deeply embedded in the politics of non-cooperation and fearing international repercussions, seals off the runway and declares a prohibitive "no-fly zone." They refuse all direct intervention, turning the airbase into a literal prison surrounded by miles of empty desert. The isolation is complete.
The clock begins immediately. Zafar's ultimatum is delivered through a patched-together radio signal: The 7-Hour Protocol. Meet their demands-the release of dozens of imprisoned paramilitary commanders-within seven hours, or they will commence public, sequential executions every fifteen minutes, starting with Senator Albright's son. The crisis has transitioned from a negotiation to an immediate, ticking military problem.
In the command center thousands of miles away, the crisis hits the highest level of government, but the solution comes from the forgotten corners of the bureaucracy. Colonel Marcus Kane, a brilliant but tarnished special operations commander relegated to a desk job following a controversial, bloody operation years prior, is thrust back into the spotlight. He is an Architect of Action whose career hangs by the thinnest thread of reputation. Recognizing the diplomatic and political systems are fatally paralyzed by fear of war and the time constraint, Kane is granted clandestine, conditional authorization for a covert military solution: Operation Clockwork. He has just seven hours to plan, brief, deploy, and execute a flawless, impossibly long-range assault across two thousand miles of hostile airspace.
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