Books like these cause you to think 'what if' and explore the science behind the book's hypothesis. I love books like this that explore things that exist and are factual via a thriller. In fact, Grumley might even be better than Brown or Meltzer.

If you are a fan of Dan Brown and Brad Meltzer you'll love this author. The first book is its own complete story.but this book continues it and moves the plot along further. I listened to the first book in the series and just loved the premise. I swear, it felt like the author just didn’t want to finish the story and was like “to hell with it, the bad guy loses, good guys win. The story is dragged on and on and nothing is explained until very close to the end (like within 45 minutes of the end) and then the villain is dealt with, the story explained, and everyone is happy. As the subject of my rant suggests, there was a total deus ex machina ending here. Lastly, the conclusion kind of annoyed me.

It’s a cheap way to create the feeling of suspense. While I enjoy the suspense of a story, I cannot stand when there’s constant reference to something specific, that’s known by one or more of the characters, but is withheld from the reader. Throughout the entirety of it, there’s hints to previous events involving the main characters, but almost nothing is explained. 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.

Genesis michael c grumley