The ocean is dying and something beneath it is waking up!

When a Chinese deep-sea mining rig drills into the floor of the Mariana Trench, they expect to strike rare minerals—what they uncover instead is alive. Moments later, the entire facility vanishes. Seismic readings spike. Coral reefs hundreds of miles away begin to bleach overnight. And across the Pacific, marine life vanishes without a trace.

The Chinese government initiates a top-secret directive known as The Leviathan Protocol, designed to contain what they’ve feared for decades: that the deepest parts of Earth’s oceans harbor something ancient… and watching.

Dr. Jenna Kessler, an American oceanographer and former coral reef conservationist, detects an unnatural acoustic pattern from the trench—a sequence of sounds too structured, too resonant to be natural. When she boards the U.S. research vessel Orpheus, she believes it’s another environmental anomaly tied to deep-sea mining. But what she finds is far more dangerous.

A bioluminescent structure, part biological and part mechanical, lies beneath the trench—dormant no longer. As the Orpheus team investigates, crew members begin suffering from hallucinations and emotional breaks. The ship’s AI malfunctions. A deaf sonar technician starts drawing symbols linked to early human cave art—and to carvings from sunken civilizations long thought to be myth. The message becomes clear: this is not first contact. It’s a final warning!

Across the world, oceans are failing. Fish stocks disappear. Coral reefs collapse. Whales beach in record numbers. The Leviathan—whether alien, ancient, or something in between—has awakened not to invade, but to intervene.

As Chinese and American warships converge and a tactical strike threatens to destroy the trench site, Jenna and her team must descend into the Leviathan’s core. There, they’ll discover the truth: humanity was never alone. And the oceans were never ours.

Part geopolitical thriller, part ecological reckoning, Leviathan Protocol is a relentless deep-sea suspense novel in the tradition of Michael Crichton and James Rollins.

It blends cutting-edge science, ancient mystery, and real-world environmental collapse into a chilling race against extinction—above and below the surface. If you believe the ocean has secrets… This book will show you what happens when they decide to speak.