Departure 37
Past mysteries reappear in this terrifying tale
On a clear October day, American skies empty after pilots refuse to fly, triggering a complete ground stop as authorities seek to explain an act of baffling coordination that the pilots insist was anything but planned. The pilots received disturbing, middle-of-the-night calls from their mothers, and each mother had an urgent request: do not fly today.
None of the mothers remember making these calls—and some of them are dead.
While the nation’s military chiefs and artificial intelligence experts mobilize in search of answers, a sixteen-year-old girl watches a strange, silvery balloon drift across the water and toward her home—a place she loathes. Her father’s dream of opening a craft brewery has been a disaster, and all she wants is an escape back to Brooklyn.
She’s about to get much more than that.
Her new home is ground zero for a story that begins at a remote naval base during the winter of 1962, when a physicist discovered something extraordinary—and deadly. All he wanted was time to seek an explanation, but pressure from both American and Russian actors forced him into a perilous race.
Moving between two timelines, Scott Carson deftly weaves Cold War espionage with contemporary terror in a story that explains why #1 New York Times bestseller Joe Hill declared himself “a fan for life.”
