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The Janus Guard: His enemy is a man who doesn't exist. His deadline was last week.

The Janus Guard: His enemy is a man who doesn't exist. His deadline was last week.

Garg, Gaurav

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Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798296305275
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 406
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
At the height of the Second World War, brilliant but unorthodox mathematician Arthur Vance is a man adrift. Sidelined by the rigid military command at Bletchley Park, he is exiled to the intellectual wasteland of Hut 14a, tasked with the mind-numbing job of listening to the meaningless radio noise of the North Atlantic. But Arthur's unique mind can see patterns where others see only chaos, and in the endless static, he discovers a ghost: a perfect, structured signal, encoded with a key that defies all known science.

His superiors call it a German trick; his colleagues, a delusion. But when the signal's first chilling prophecy-a V-1 strike on a sleeping, unwarned London borough-comes true with pinpoint accuracy, Arthur is dragged from the shadows. He becomes the unwilling head of Project Chronos, a secret group with a single, terrifying purpose: to use the signal's impossible knowledge to win the war. He is no longer an outcast; he is the most important man in the world, the sole interpreter of messages from a future that has already been lost.

But the signal is not the benevolent oracle it appears to be. With the arrival of Julian Albright, a disgraced physicist from the past who confesses to being a historian from the future, Arthur learns the horrifying truth. The signal is a tool from a dying world, sent back by a faction known as the Janus Guard to manage the past. And the Janus Guard is locked in a bitter civil war. The Interventionists, led by Albright, believe they must control history to save it. The Isolationists, a rival faction, believe any change is an abomination.

Caught between warring gods from the future, with his allies compromised and a ghost assassin closing in, Arthur realizes he is the focal point of a war for the timeline itself. With the fate of the war and the future of reality hanging in the balance, he must make an impossible choice: trust his handlers from a future that wants to control him, or risk everything on one last, desperate gambit to seize control of his own history, even if it means shattering the very fabric of time.

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