Ben Wade and the Silent Cascade: Amateur Radio Adventures - Book 3 by Terry W. Platt NN4Y

When the airwaves turn deadly, only one man still knows how to listen. Ben Wade—callsign Q1Z to those who know—has spent a lifetime chasing signals across the invisible world of radio. From his quiet Alabama shack, surrounded by towers and wire, he has always trusted one thing: the air never lies. Until now. When a cryptic letter arrives from an old military friend, Ben is pulled into a mystery that defies everything he understands about communication. Modern radios are failing—silently, catastrophically—burned from the inside out by something no one can detect. No jamming. No interference. Just sudden, unexplained death. As the phenomenon spreads, collapsing emergency networks, military systems, and civilian communications, Ben discovers the terrifying truth: the air itself has been weaponized. Teaming up with a rogue physicist and a determined FBI agent, Ben must rely on old-school ingenuity—vacuum tubes, analog rigs, and hard-earned instinct—to track a hidden enemy using cutting-edge directed energy technology. As the “Silent Cascade” spreads across the nation, the world edges toward total communication blackout. Read more