The Black Knight (Warner & Lopez Book 4)

Manhattan, USA, 1899: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla detects strange signals coming from an object orbiting the Earth at a high velocity, fifty years before mankind€s first satellite is launched into space. The signal is again detected by radio operators in Norway twenty years later and is confirmed by the United States Air Force. Then, silence€¦, until now.

Ethan Warner and Hannah Ford of the Defense Intelligence Agency are called in to investigate a sudden resurgence of the signal, and unveil a tremendously classified operation by NASA and the USAF to conceal the evidence from the rest of the world. Tracking the decaying orbit of the object, code-named Black Knight, they discover that it is about to descend to Earth for the first time in 13,000 years €“ and that it is homing in on an Earth-bound signal coming from deep inside the Arctic Circle.

Ethan and Hannah are dispatched with a crack team of soldiers and scientists to intercept the object, and in doing so locate the bleak remains of a wartime German submarine base buried deep in the ice floes connecting the Nazis and the orbiting Black Knight. But they are not alone in their search as the combined forces of their arch enemies, Majestic-Twelve, amass to fight for the right to the satellite. But in the bleak wastes of the Arctic there is something else awaiting all of them that is not of this world€¦

REVIEW

Praise for Dean Crawford:

"The fossilized remains of a 7,000-year-old creature dug from the sands of the Negev Desert in Israel become the bones of contention in Dean Crawford's fast-paced debut thriller... The book neatly threads together a wild variety of plotlines." - Wall Street Journal

€œ€¦ cleverly introduced premise€¦ assured pacing and plotting€¦€ - Publishers Weekly

€œThe action is frenetic, in the vein of Matthew Reilly€s Scarecrow series. Crawford is an able storyteller who smoothly orchestrates the plot€s twists and turns€¦ € €“ Kirkus Reviews

€œ€¦ brilliant high-concept, high-octane thriller€¦.€ - The Guardian

"A fast-paced and entertaining yarn." - Melbourne Age

"Partly mythical read, part thriller this pacy tale is a page turner guaranteed to keep you up late." - The Sun

"Get the cameras rolling€"Indiana Jones meets Alien. What a combination of mystery, suspense, and unspeakable horror. I loved it!" - R.L. Stine

€œThis is an amazingly good, intelligently told novel by an exciting new British author.€ - Eurocrime

"Earth-shattering intrigue, hyperdrive action and a desperate race to save humanity, cranked up to the max with scarily realistic science and apocalyptic religion thrown in for good measure . . . a major new talent has hit the mystery thriller scene!" - Scott Mariani

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dean Crawford began writing after his dream of becoming a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force was curtailed when he failed their stringent sight tests. His Ethan Warner series of high-concept novels have regularly featured on the Sunday Times paperback bestseller list and have sold all over the world. A full-time author, he lives with his partner and daughter in Surrey.