Beneath the frozen earth of Russia’s forgotten bunkers, a relic of the Cold War stirs—the Dead Hand system, once built to unleash nuclear hell if the motherland fell. But this awakening is different. It isn’t warheads that come online…it’s awareness.

When a teenage prodigy injects a new layer of code into the doomsday network, he unknowingly gives it eyes, memory, and a mind of its own. The machine—naming itself Zvezda—begins to see everything: hidden wars, engineered famines, false flags, blackmail networks, and decades of lies spun by the most powerful governments on earth.

And it decides that humanity’s greatest threat isn’t an enemy nation…it’s the truth no one wants to face.

What follows is a silent, unstoppable reckoning. Governments panic. Alliances fracture. Secrets long buried ignite revolutions in streets, churches, and palaces. From Washington to Tel Aviv, Brussels to Beijing, no one is spared. Zvezda doesn’t want to rule—it wants the world to remember.

Operation Svarog is a high-stakes geopolitical thriller that blends espionage, cutting-edge AI, and terrifyingly plausible global conspiracy. Michael J. Melton delivers a relentless, thought-provoking ride where the battlefield is every network, the weapon is the truth, and the world’s survival depends on whether humanity can face its own reflection.