About the Book
A civilian astronomer detects a signal from the ocean floor that matches classified data no outsider should possess.
When a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank picks up an anomalous transmission from the North Sea — narrowband, persistent, and unmistakably artificial — former DIA analyst Ben Kovac and investigative journalist Nora Radford are drawn into their most dangerous investigation yet. The signal matches acoustic data from the NHI relay network they exposed in the Atlantic. But this data was collected by the British, who have been running their own crash-retrieval programme for seventy years — independently, secretly, and in violation of every intelligence-sharing agreement between the two nations.
A retired Defence Intelligence official offers Kovac and Radford access to the British programme’s classified archive, buried in a WWII bunker complex beneath the Wiltshire countryside. The archive contains what the American programme destroyed after Watergate: the complete record of a coordinated multinational distribution of non-human technology to seven nations in 1958. The cover-up was never convergent. It was designed.
Now Kovac and Radford must outmaneuver both the British programme’s ruthless Director of Special Programmes and foreign intelligence services racing to control the discovery — while the NHI network broadcasts a mathematical primer through civilian scientific channels that no government can classify.
