When both sides of a war are being manipulated, the truth becomes the ultimate weapon.

In a near-future Okinawa under Chinese occupation, CIA case officer Li "Ryu" Ma discovers anomalous patterns in military communications and atmospheric disturbances that defy explanation. As American and Chinese forces position themselves for inevitable conflict, Ryu suspects something far more insidious than typical geopolitical tension.

Forming an uneasy alliance with marine biologist Dr. Sharla Kinjo, whose research into bizarre ocean behaviors raises disturbing questions and other allies, Ryu races to unravel who—or what—might be orchestrating events from the shadows. The closer he gets to the truth, the more reality itself seems to bend around him.

The mission becomes devastatingly personal when Ryu confronts his estranged brother Wei working for Chinese intelligence. On opposite sides of an ideological divide, both brothers question whether their roles in a larger game with unfathomable stakes.

Hunted by cybernetically-enhanced, environmental SEA sycophants, Ryu navigates a treacherous landscape where loyalty, identity, and the very nature of consciousness are thrown into doubt.

With the fate of millions hanging in the balance, he must disable a network of mysterious control nodes across the Okinawan islands before two global powers annihilate each other—exactly as someone, or something, seems to have planned.

CEREUS & LIMNIC: ESCAPE FROM OKINAWA is a mind-bending military game tech thriller in the tradition of Liu Cixin's THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM and Charles Stross's LAUNDRY FILES, with the geopolitical tension of RED DAWN and the philosophical depth of Ted Chiang's STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS.

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