11/11: Retribution

On November 11th, a coordinated terror plot unfolds across New York City's subway system. The first attacker, Scott Warren, is stopped by NYPD Transit officers Peter Hamilton and Stephanie Brown at 14th Street. Trained in counter-terror protocol, they neutralize Warren just moments before he can detonate a suicide vest packed with TATP, magnesium, and cyanide. The chaos that follows sets off a citywide emergency response.

But Scott wasn't acting alone.

Other operatives, including James Waters-a disaffected NYU student turned jihadi-are already in motion. Waters boards the uptown 6 train, destined for Grand Central, wearing a vest of his own. As his stop nears, his mind flickers through the events that brought him here: his childhood resentments, spiritual emptiness, and eventual radicalization at the hands of London- and Pakistan-based extremists.

While NYPD, FDNY, and federal agencies rush to track the remaining threats, the story moves across boroughs and perspectives-from emergency coordinators and bomb techs to the operatives themselves. The mission, led by a battle-hardened jihadist named Muhammed, has been meticulously planned across continents, with roots tracing back to the fallout of Middle Eastern colonialism and global political failures.

With lives in the balance, 11/11 races toward a high-stakes climax inside Grand Central Station. One final confrontation may determine whether the day becomes a memorial-or a mass grave.

11/11 is a lean, high-tension novel that interrogates the psychological, social, and geopolitical forces behind terrorism in the post-9/11 era. At 62,000 words, it is both fast-paced and thought-provoking-a compact thriller with global resonance.