The Taipei Signal

Derick Johannes

• 24 juni 2026
• 9798183977738

Samenvatting:

Posing as a yield-optimisation consultant, intelligence operative Daniel Vaughn arrives in Taipei to investigate a "minor anomaly" inside a semiconductor packaging facility. The deeper he probes Taiwan's chip-test infrastructure, the more he senses something hidden beneath the data, a pattern too clean, a quiet too deliberate. As pressure mounts from Beijing and betrayal threatens from within, Daniel navigates governance resets, corporate intrigue, and a fragile alliance with the formidable Sophia. A pre-registered disclosure filed in Paris forces escalation. Only at the end does Daniel grasp the truth: the chips were never the prize. They were how someone learned the shield.
The Taiwan Red Line Trilogy continues in Book Two, The Nuclear Shield. Daniel turns his gaze upward, to the orbital deterrence architecture hidden above the strait, and the most dangerous floor of all.