Zero Yield

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Synopsis

For a year, every nuclear weapon that matters has been dying — not exploding, not stolen, just quietly, invisibly switched off — and no government on earth will admit it is happening.

Investigative reporter Ken Kendall is the only person chasing the truth instead of the fear. The trail leads him through black-market arms deals, vanished power brokers, and a shadow alliance of the world’s most dangerous men — straight to a quiet, unremarkable consultant named Haldane, who explains the impossible to him over coffee in an airport hotel, then disappears before Kendall realizes what he has just been handed.

It will take Kendall a year and a half, a ruined career, a dead friend, and a reckoning broadcast to a billion screens to understand what he already knows: that he has already met the most powerful man alive — and that the hand quietly disarming the world’s weapons may also be the only thing standing between humanity and its worst self.

Now Kendall has to decide what no reporter ever wants to: not what the story is, but what he owes the man at the center of it. Because the real question was never who is doing this.

It’s whether, if you found him, you’d thank him — or stop him.

ZERO YIELD is a riveting debut thriller for readers of Daniel Suarez’s DAEMON and John le Carré — a story about power, mercy, and the terrifying cost of being made safe by a man who never asked permission.