From the very start, I had no idea what the characters were talking about. I know it’s part of the Monuments collection, but this seems much more like a “part II” than a loosely connected storyline. I suppose I missed something saying as much. I checked, several times, and there wasn’t anything suggesting this was part of a larger story, but there are quite few aspects of this book that make me think it is.

To make matters worse, through a strange bedside confession, a journalist thousands of miles away has just learned that someone else already knows about the satellite's 50-year-old discovery.īecause they've been secretly using it for years.įirst of all, I’m still not really sure if this was part of a series. Joe Rickards is convinced it will lead mankind into darkness.Īngela believes it may be the answer the modern world has been longing for.Īnd former NASA engineer Leonard Townsend hasn't the slightest idea what he's about to get involved in. With the system's original data firmly in the hands of former NTSB investigator Joe Rickards and anthropologist Angela Reed.īut the data is only to be shared with one other person besides them: a seventy-five-year-old NASA engineer who was part of the original program. Mocked for decades, the man who designed the satellite is now dead. It was an accidental glimpse of something extraordinary, and very old. Half a century ago, an aberration was spotted by one of our earliest satellites, and summarily dismissed as a hardware malfunction. One of mankind's greatest secrets.has been hiding in plain sight for 3,000 years.

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