The Prometheus Project
Only a Gigantic Hoax kept Earth from the Clutches of
Aliens—but the Secret was About to be Leaked
THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT
Bob Devaney was a Special Forces soldier in the early 1960s -- until
a certain traumatic event, which he refused to discuss even with his
superiors, caused him to leave the Army and set up his own security and
investigative agency, an agency whose one employee was himself.
Hired by a secret government agency to do undercover work, he was
escorting a mysterious woman named Novak to the White House when they
were ambushed by gunmen. Novak used a device that worked like an
invisibility field to make an impossible escape—and then knocked Devaney
out with some kind of ray gun. When he woke up, he realized that Novak
was about to kill him for knowing too much—but suddenly she received a
message: Devaney was to be recruited for something called the Prometheus
Project.
The Project turned out to be the largest disinformation operation in
history, targeted at the aliens who ruled the galaxy. A man named
Inconnu had arrived in a damaged but highly advanced craft in the 1940s
with the information that he had escaped from a group of humans whom
aliens had been studying, and it turned out that unless the Earth could
convince the aliens that the planet had a unified government, and was
armed with technology comparable to that of the galactic rulers, the
Earth would be exploited as a primitive protectorate.
So far the hoax was working—and the technology which Inconnu had
brought with him helped—but someone in the Project was selling secrets
to an interstellar mafia called the Tonkuztra about the real state of
affairs on Earth. And Devaney knew that Chloe Bryant, the woman he had
fallen in love with, was being set up to take a fall for the real
traitor, who was about to embark on a treason whose consequences could
jeopardize the very Universe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve White was an officer in Naval Intelligence, and served in the
Mediterranean and the Vietnam War Zone. Among the popular science
fiction adventure novels he has written for Baen are the trilogy
comprising The Disinherited, Legacy and Debt of Ages,
which combine fast-paced space opera with Arthurian mythology. He has
also written the galaxy-spanning adventure Prince of Sunset, and
its sequel Emperor of Dawn, and the SF suspense thriller Eagle
Against the Stars. With David Weber, he has written the Starfire
series, the latest of which was the New York Times best seller The
Shiva Option. His most recent novel is Forge of the Titans.
He currently works for a legal publishing company in Charlottesville,
Virginia. He is married and has three daughters.
Cover painting by Bob Eggleton
Cover design by Jennie Faries
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