Book excerpt: Cocheta Mountain. The massive complex was a high-tech laboratory for a handful of the most brilliant minds on earth. Together, they struggled to understand and duplicate recovered extraterrestrial technology before America's enemies did... or an unspeakable horror arrived from space. Chief Scientific Advisor Dr. Benjamin Hanson was the project's greatest resource... and a dying man. His ultimate goal: unite the world in developing a defense against what he believed to be a coming invasion. He needed a clever plan, one that would topple a well-established culture of secrecy, allow him to evade those who watched his every move and neutralize a murderous bureaucrat before the cruel tentacles of cancer robbed him of his life. With enormous resources committed to keeping secret the nightmares concealed inside Cocheta Mountain, will Hanson's cunning stratagem tear away a decades-old cover-up and shake the planet to its' core, or will he take his frightening revelations to the grave?