About the Book
A Navy pilot vanishes over the Atlantic. Her last transmission: “They’re not in the sky. They’re in the water.”
When Lieutenant Commander Sara Maddox goes missing during a routine training sortie off the Virginia coast, the Navy calls it a crash. But former DIA analyst Ben Kovac knows better. Maddox had been reporting UAP encounters for months — objects that dove beneath the waves without slowing, tracked on sonar at speeds no submarine can match. Her footage was deleted. Her peers were reassigned. And the night she disappeared, she was flying directly over a section of the Atlantic where the Navy’s own SOSUS hydrophone network has been detecting anomalous contacts for years. Kovac and investigative journalist Nora Radford follow the trail from NAS Oceana to a classified underwater monitoring station, where they discover the truth the Navy has been hiding: the non-human intelligence is not visiting from above. It is already here — operating an active network beneath the Atlantic seaboard, using the same sonar arrays built to hunt Soviet submarines. Now Kovac and Radford must get the evidence to a Congressional hearing before a two-star admiral buries it forever — and before the program buries them.
