The Rise of the Iron Major

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Releases on 5th January 2026


A statement from captain Hay.


"They’ll tell you Damien Blackridge is cold. That he crossed lines others wouldn’t. That when the world started tearing itself apart, he chose order over mercy. I won’t deny any of that. What I will say is this: when the noise hit—when command collapsed, civilians panicked, and the dead started getting back up—Damien was the only one still standing still enough to decide. Not the safest decision. Not the kindest. The necessary one.


You can judge him for Folkestone. People do. They weren’t there when the tunnel started breathing. They didn’t watch warning shots fail, bodies get back up, and a line turn into the last thing holding the country together. Damien didn’t invent the rules—we were already playing by them. He just understood faster than the rest of us that hesitation was another word for death. Every order he gave kept someone alive, even if the cost was carried by him alone.


So read his story. Not to forgive him. Not to condemn him. Read it to decide whether you’d have done better with the same seconds, the same orders, the same impossible weight on your shoulders. Because when the world ends, history doesn’t belong to the clean—it belongs to the ones who made the call."


Out on 5th January 2026


The Rise of the Iron Major


Https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G2TMPLZM. UK


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2TMPLZM. USA

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