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.
