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Cyber Field Ops
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SIGNAL STORM · a four-book anthology

Four cities. Four attacks. One adversary.

Four original techno-thrillers set across a country on the edge of extreme weather — a cyclone, a heatwave, a fog. In each one you don’t follow the story, you become one of the team, and every call you make is quietly building your capability. One patient adversary runs through all four, unmasked only in the finale. Read the books. Learn the ground truth. Sit at the tools.

Start the story New to all this? Start with Field Basics
1 The Anthology · four books 2 Field Basics · from zero 3 The Consoles · the tools
Path one · the storyline

Become the analyst by living it.

It begins with a prologue — the Academy, six months before the first operation — then opens into the four-book campaign. Read, decide, and the story moves on what you choose.

Prologue · six months earlier

The Academy

Before any of the four operations, a minibus with taped-over windows drops you at a gate that isn’t on any map. Five people lean against a bench, sizing you up. Over a few days you learn how each of them sees the world — before it’s ever called cyber. They’re the people you’ll stand beside when the storms come.
Enter the Academy
The anthology · four books, one campaign
Book One · Sydney

INTRUDER
IN THE WIRE

Task Force NIGHTJAR

A quiet team fights battles you never hear about. Tonight an adversary is already inside the wire — and you join the team that has to find them.

Enter Book One →
Book Two · Darwin

KING TIDE

Task Force BOOBOOK

Where the undersea cables come ashore, a cyclone is eleven hours out — and someone is already in the network, taking the keys, counting on the storm to cover their exit.

Enter Book Two →
Book Three · Perth

FORTY DEGREES
AT MIDNIGHT

Task Force FROGMOUTH

On the eve of the hottest day ever recorded, the power grid has no margin left — and the ransom note on every screen is not what it appears to be.

Enter Book Three →
Book Four · Canberra

WHEN THE
FOG LIFTS

Task Force MASKED OWL

The convergence. Three task forces, one set of hands, and a trusted software update about to betray four thousand front doors at dawn — the night the adversary is finally seen.

Enter Book Four →
Path two · from zero

Never touched any of this? Learn the ground truth.

A separate, self-paced track that teaches how a computer, a network, and the web actually work — ten short lessons, each with a live animated diagram, taught plainly before anything is asked of you. Do it first, or dip in whenever a book names something you want to see for real.

Field Basics — your first week
Computer · numbers · the OS · networks · IP · ports · DNS · the web · encryption · passwords. No experience needed. Power on each diagram and watch the idea move.
Start the track
Path three · the tools

Sit straight down at the console.

Each role in the books has a full working analyst console behind it. Skip the story and practise the hands-on part on its own, as many times as you like — the same tools the teams use inside the operations.

The Floor
Operations Coordinator
→
The Watch Floor
Intrusion Analyst
→
Containment
Incident Responder
→
The Bench
Malware Analyst
→
The Engagement
Penetration Tester
→
One campaign, one adversary

The four books aren’t separate stories — they’re four fronts of the same operation. STONEFISH — one patient adversary — runs through all four cities and is unmasked only in the finale. The Academy is where you meet the teams; Field Basics is the ground truth under every incident; the consoles are the tools the teams reach for. Read a book to feel it, take Field Basics to understand it, open a console to do it — and cross between them freely.

Field Basics · foundations, built for every book The Academy · the prologue Enterprise Console · admin · reporting
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