From New York Times bestsellers Preston and Child, archaeologist
Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson are tasked with the mysterious
deaths of two people found at a site where a UFO allegedly crashed
decades before.
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus
Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an
outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the
Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A
skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the
site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities.
Special Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora's
excavation proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly
inexplicable, Corrie's homicide investigation throws open a Pandora's
box of espionage and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful
force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets--and that
threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate.