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Shadows over Domburg book cover by Ard Breure, featuring Domburg beach, its water tower and Rotterdam harbour.

Expected Jan 2027

Shadows over Domburg

A body on the beach. A trail to the Port of Rotterdam. And a network that remains invisible.

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Zero Day Directive by Ard Breure, English book cover for a political techno-thriller about a digital threat to European democracy

Expected Jun 2027

Zero Day Directive

A zero-day exploit strikes at the heart of European democracy. The clock is ticking, and the line between loyalty and betrayal is fading.

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The Final Override by Ard Breure, geopolitical AI thriller about Europe, America and artificial intelligence

Expected Dec 2027

The Final Override

The greatest threat may not be that machines become smarter than humans. It may be that, at the moment that matters most, humanity no longer gets the final say.

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The New Cyber War by Ard Breure, nonfiction book about AI, hackers and cybersecurity

In development

The New Cyber War

Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity from both sides of the battlefield. Attackers can automate, scale and personalize cyberattacks, while defenders are gaining powerful new tools to detect and respond to threats.

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A body on the beach. A trail to the Port of Rotterdam. And a network that remains invisible.

A body washes ashore on the beach at Domburg. What first appears to be an isolated case soon points to something far larger.

Tom Jansen, a former police officer with years of experience in the Port of Rotterdam, has left his active career behind. But when the trail leads back toward Rotterdam, he is drawn once more into a world he knows intimately: containers, freight forwarders, customs inspections and global trade routes through which enormous volumes of cargo move every day almost unnoticed.

At the Eemhaven, he discovers that behind seemingly ordinary shipments lies a network where weapons, military electronics and international interests intersect. The documents are correct. The containers are sealed. The systems raise no alarm. And yet something is wrong.

As the investigation moves from the windswept Zeeland coast to the darker edges of the Port of Rotterdam, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine who is telling the truth and who is revealing just enough of it to remain invisible.

Shadows over Domburg is a contemporary Dutch thriller about power, international smuggling, technology and the vulnerability of a world that has learned to trust data, procedures and systems. A story in which the facts may be clear, the questions may seem logical, and the answers are anything but.

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A zero-day exploit strikes at the heart of European democracy. The clock is ticking, and the line between loyalty and betrayal is fading.

When a devastating cyberattack paralyzes the European Parliament, Europe is forced into a corner. As Brussels prepares for a historic vote on digital sovereignty, choosing between its traditional alliance with America and an independent future, Iran claims the attack, threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz to force European neutrality.

Only one cybersecurity analyst in Brussels stumbles upon the dangerous truth hidden within the code. But as he races through a labyrinth of state-sponsored hacking, political espionage, and digital warfare, the vote itself is being secretly manipulated. If the result flips, the geopolitical balance of power will shift forever.

Packed with authentic tech suspense, pulse-pounding action, and realistic geopolitics, Zero Day Directive is a gripping techno-thriller for fans of Tom Clancy, Daniel Silva, and William Gibson.

Will the truth emerge before democracy is rewritten?

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The greatest threat may not be that machines become smarter than humans. It may be that, at the moment that matters most, humanity no longer gets the final say.

Artificial intelligence is changing the balance of power faster than governments can control it.

Across Europe and the United States, algorithms are no longer just advising people. They are shaping decisions, influencing institutions and quietly determining which information is trusted, and which is ignored.

When a series of events exposes how deeply automated systems have entered politics, security and public life, one question becomes impossible to avoid: who is really in control?

The greatest threat may not be that machines become smarter than humans.

It may be that, at the moment that matters most, humanity no longer gets the final say.

The Final Override is a geopolitical AI thriller about power, technology and the dangerous point where human judgment and machine logic collide.

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Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity from both sides of the battlefield. Attackers can automate, scale and personalize cyberattacks, while defenders are gaining powerful new tools to detect and respond to threats.

About the author

Ard Breure

Ard Breure grew up in Zeeland, the province he turns into the setting of Shadows over Domburg. At twenty-five he traded Zeeland for Rotterdam, where he has lived ever since, a city he knows from its old centre to the far edge of the Maasvlakte docks.

Those two landscapes, the stillness of the Zeeland coast and the rawness of the harbour, form the backbone of his work. His books appear under the Breure Media imprint: a home for stories that keep resonating long after the final page.

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