ABSENT SIGNAL

By: GERALD BARNABY

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Paperback | 14 May 2026

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432 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.44

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Some units don't exist on paper. Some signals are engineered to disappear. And some people are built for exactly this kind of work.

The Dark Frequency Series follows Mara Kess and a five-person ghost unit operating entirely off the books - no government acknowledgment, no institutional safety net, no way home if it goes wrong. They work in the space between flag and shadow, finding what the system refuses to see and doing what the system refuses to do.

Across the series, they will follow a single thread: a buried intelligence architecture that hunts dissidents by the shape of their absence, the man who built it, and the twenty-five-year-old decision that put Mara at the centre of everything.

Operationally grounded. Morally unresolved. Built for readers who want the credibility of Clancy, the velocity of Patterson, and something that doesn't flinch.

Book One: Absent Signal | Book Two: Coming Soon

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