Dark State Rising: A Shane Potter Mission

Book II of The Shane Potter Chronicles

A geopolitical thriller by S.G. Potter

What if the world didn't fall under tyranny...

but into silence disguised as peace?

After exposing a government-sanctioned plot to unleash nuclear chaos in The Potter Directive, former special operations medic Shane Potter is thrust into a darker war-one not fought with bullets, but with emotions, memory, and control itself.

In Dark State Rising, the systems that once ruled the world have fallen... but the mind behind the machine remains. Cities heal under new unity initiatives. Citizens speak in curated calm. The war is over-so why does it feel like the truth has vanished?

From resistance safehouses to collapsed surveillance hubs, Shane joins Ashlee, Zoya, and Talia in uncovering the Reflector Dome, a once-hidden global neural array designed to suppress collective unrest through emotional harmonics. What they find beneath it is worse than control-it's compliance masquerading as freedom.

But as the world begins to awaken, a new threat rises: The Bern Protocol, a compassionate-sounding doctrine spreading across nations, framing dissent as selfishness and enforcing unity through "emotional harmony."

In a final act of defiance, Shane leads the last unfiltered broadcast the world may ever hear-knowing full well that freedom doesn't return with applause... it returns when people stop asking for permission to speak.

Dark State Rising is a high-intensity, emotionally resonant political thriller that challenges readers to examine the cost of engineered peace and the sacred responsibility of remembering. Fans of 1984, Tom Clancy, The Terminal List, and Black Mirror will find themselves gripped by this hauntingly relevant second installment of The Shane Potter Chronicles.

Perfect for readers who love:

✔️ Political thrillers with moral weight

✔️ Dystopia grounded in realism

✔️ Psychological warfare, narrative manipulation, and resistance

✔️ Stories where freedom is earned, not given