Cracking the Code: The Evacuation (2022) opens the series with the night the world went dark.
When the first explosions hit, a blockchain-security engineer in Ukraine grabbed a laptop, a passport, and his family. What followed wasn't a movie montage of courage-it was twelve sleepless days of checkpoints, dead phones, and borderlines that shifted by the hour.
This book follows the route in real time-through the smoke and panic of departure, the frozen silence of the Polish border, the grey stations of Budapest and Vienna, the cold cafés of France, and finally the uneasy calm of Spain. Each stop is a fragment of survival written in code, fear, and caffeine.
It's not a war memoir in uniform. It's the story of a digital worker dragged out of the cloud and dropped into history, watching networks collapse and humanity reboot on the roadside. Between air-raid sirens and Wi-Fi signals, Cracking the Code: The Evacuation shows what happens when the abstract world of technology collides with the raw physics of survival.
Gritty, unsentimental, and painfully current, this is the beginning of a four-book chronicle that tracks one coder's flight from chaos and his struggle to rebuild a life among the ruins of the twenty-first century.
For readers of: modern war memoirs, tech-culture nonfiction, refugee narratives, and cyberpunk realism-stories where the digital and the human crash into each other and nothing boots up the same again.
