MAPMAKERS BOOK FOUR

The Divided Peninsula

Summary

A rocket falls on Seoul. The world has minutes to decide what it means.

In 2037, the Korean Peninsula is no longer a frozen conflict. It is a live wire.

North Korea’s most ambitious launch is supposed to prove that the regime has entered a new era. Instead, it triggers a cascading crisis across Seoul, Pyongyang, Washington, Beijing, and every command center watching the skies over the Pacific.

As rescue crews dig through the wreckage, military forces move before anyone fully understands what has happened. Satellites shift. Submarines hunt. Strike aircraft wait for orders. Diplomats fight to keep words from becoming weapons.

Former president Alex Valen, now Secretary of State, has spent his career forcing peace into places that did not want it. This time, the crisis is moving faster than politics, faster than verification, and faster than the fragile systems meant to keep nuclear weapons under control.

To prevent war, Valen and his allies will have to answer the hardest question of the new century:

When a state begins to collapse with nuclear weapons still inside it, who has the right to stop the world from burning?

The Divided Peninsula is the fourth book in the Mapmakers series: a near-future military and political thriller about nuclear danger, lawful force, failed states, and the brutal work of preventing the next war.