When the world’s leaders conspire in secret, the cost of survival is counted in blood. Colonel Zain Belhasa is ordered into a mission that defies reason, bound to soldiers from across the globe and shadowed by machines that enforce loyalty with lethal precision. What begins as duty soon becomes betrayal-of nations, of families, of the very soul. As Phase One unfolds, Zain must choose between obedience and humanity, even as the architects of a new order tighten their grip on a collapsing world. In the silence that follows, the question remains: how much can be sacrificed in the name of survival before nothing worth saving remains?