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The Message: A First-Contact Thriller
Paperback
Series: Zen's World
Publisher: John Coryat
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The greatest discovery in history is a secret worth killing for.
When a targeted laser beam arrives from a star twenty light years away, the race to control the message begins. On the isolated Lunar L2 Aegis telescope, a covert team is assembled to make first contact, but in the cold war between monolithic space corporations, first contact is just another term for first move.
The mission is a powder keg of brilliance and baggage:
- The Codebreaker: Ellie Kobayashi, a linguist fresh from the Amazon jungle.
- The Genius: Dr. Daniel Walker, the reclusive designer of the station's key technology.
- The Enforcer: A cocky corporate agent sent to protect the company's investment.
- The Commander: A battle-scarred colonel with a dark and mysterious past.
Trapped in total isolation, haunted by the station's disgraced former crew and watched by a rival's stealth ship, the team begins to decipher what seems to be a peaceful alien history. But when sabotage and murder strike the station, they realize the threat is not out in space; it is locked on the station with them.
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