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In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new breed of fuelless transport systems - and weapons beyond our imagination. Of course it never happened. Or did it? Forty years later a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediction forces a highly sceptical aerospace and defence journalist, Nick Cook, to consider the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code - and has covered up ever since. His investigations moved from the corridors of NASA to the dark heartland of America's classified weapons establishment, where it became clear that half a century ago, in the dying days of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists were racing to perfect a Pandora's Box of high technology that would deliver Germany from defeat. History says that they failed. But the trail that takes Cook deep into the once-impenetrable empire of SS General Hans Kammler - the man charged by Adolf Hitler with perfecting German secret weapons technology - says otherwise. In his pursuit of the true facts behind Kammler, Cook finally establishes the truth: America is determined to hang onto its secrets, but the stakes are enormous and others are now in the race to acquire a suppressed technology.

'A highly original, electrifying read' The Times'A stylish, riveting thriller' Daily Mail'An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown' Sunday TimesThe US President Thompson has been dreaming of his own death. A repeating nightmare that hounds him night after night that he can't ignore: something tells him it's not just a dream, it feels too real.Thompson's doctor, military psychiatrist Josh Cain, is summoned to a church tower near the White House. He thinks he is there to talk down another suicidal ex-Marine. But the man he finds tells him of a plot to kill Thompson, revealing secrets he can't possibly have known - just seconds before a sniper's bullet takes him out . . .Battles have been fought man to man, then machine to machine, and even in cyberspace. But now there is a different battlefield emerging: human consciousness and the fight for our minds.What readers are saying:***** 'A classy, intelligent and reflective investigative thriller.' ***** 'A layered plot, engaging characters and a spine chilling ring of truth to the plot, which lured me in and kept me trapped until the final page.'***** 'A real page turner with plenty of surprises and twists. Great read.'***** 'THE BEST BOOK THAT I'VE READ ALL YEAR!'

From UFO mysteries and classified science to the hidden battle over human perception, this non-fiction thriller is perfect for fans of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs and readers who enjoyed Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets.For decades, award-winning defence journalist Nick Cook investigated the world's most secret technologies. He reported from inside the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and the classified aerospace programmes surrounding Area 51. But one mystery remained unresolved.In 1992, while covering secret weapons tests in the Nevada desert, Cook witnessed something he could not explain. Thirty years later, as governments finally acknowledge the reality of unidentified aerial phenomena, he returns to the question he once set aside. But what he discovers is more disturbing and complicated than a hidden fleet of alien spacecraft.Following a trail through Cold War deception, black-budget science, remote viewing, directed-energy research and modern AI, Cook reveals how UFOs/UAP became part of a vast confusion zone - one in which advanced technology, psychological warfare and unexplained phenomena are almost impossible to separate. But the deeper secret lies not in the skies, but in the human mind.As governments and technology companies acquire unprecedented power to shape perception, predict behaviour and influence belief, the struggle for control is shifting. Reality itself has become the battlefield. Part memoir, part exposé and written with the pace of a real-world thriller, ROGUE ICON asks the defining question of our age: are we passive observers of reality - or conscious participants in its creation?

'A highly original, electrifying read' The Times'A stylish, riveting thriller' Daily Mail'An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown' Sunday TimesThe US President Thompson has been dreaming of his own death. A repeating nightmare that hounds him night after night that he can't ignore: something tells him it's not just a dream, it feels too real.Thompson's doctor, military psychiatrist Josh Cain, is summoned to a church tower near the White House. He thinks he is there to talk down another suicidal ex-Marine. But the man he finds tells him of a plot to kill Thompson, revealing secrets he can't possibly have known - just seconds before a sniper's bullet takes him out . . .Battles have been fought man to man, then machine to machine, and even in cyberspace. But now there is a different battlefield emerging: human consciousness and the fight for our minds.What readers are saying:'A classy, intelligent and reflective investigative thriller.''A layered plot, engaging characters and a spine chilling ring of truth to the plot, which lured me in and kept me trapped until the final page.''A real page turner with plenty of surprises and twists. Great read.''THE BEST BOOK THAT I'VE READ ALL YEAR!'