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Black Swan 5: A First Contact Science Fiction Thriller
Hardcover
Series: Black Swan Event, Book 5
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Black Swan Event continues with Book Five from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.
The bunkers. The files. The men in suits. The shadow program built to outlast collapse. None of that was the true secret. Project Preserve Destiny was built around alien life forms already living among us-watching, guiding, infiltrating, and deciding which bloodlines matter when the future of the species is at stake..
Some wore borrowed faces. Some moved in stable human likeness. Some stood so deep inside the machinery of government and science that even the people serving them never understood who was really in command. Now those life forms are divided, and their hidden war has turned one little girl into the most valuable child on Earth.
Emily Pickett has spent her life trusting evidence, not myth. Now, with the real Professor Xavier beside her, she must decode the hidden language of the program before the alien life forms of Project Preserve Destiny bury the truth beneath false faces, false loyalties, and false rescue.
Daniel Pickett has seen what lives beneath the mask. Removed from the official record and hunted by the system that cultivated him, he moves through a ruined America knowing the most dangerous beings on Earth did not arrive as invaders. They were already here. Already embedded. Already deciding who mattered.
Bud Pickett, Bella Reyes, and Mateo Reyes will cross any distance to bring Sofia home. But a rescue mission becomes something else when the enemy is older than human government, stronger than human force, and split between factions that disagree on only one point, whether humanity deserves to keep its children.
The question is no longer whether aliens walk among us?
The real questions is how many?
The answers will change everything.
Mixing science and suspense is something Bobby Akart is a master of while writing character driven stories that will have you on the edge of your seat.
Black Swan Book Five is the next installment in the Black Swan Event series-a journey from scientific mystery through global catastrophe to a revelation that will leave you staring at the night sky long after the final page. This modern-day, fact-based thriller will have you whispering just one more chapter until the very end.
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