Agents Sam (Samantha) Mitchell and Byron Lowe have graduated from a US-based UFO disinformation bureau. They must assess whether the sightings and plans of an alien intelligence network in the Australian Outback are in humanity’s best interests.
The two quickly discover that they are at loggerheads in running the mission. Sam, agent in charge, must deal with her partner’s arrogance and unfamiliarity with the territory. Hampered by mounting global pandemic, they meet an unlikely pair-retired airline pilot Sens and an activist indigenous woman Meg, who’ve been associated with several ET sightings. It is only when Sens’ pet dog Marshall is reported to have accomplished seemingly impossible feats, that Sam and Byron find the key to direct contact with the aliens.
‘Covert Messages’ is the first volume of the ‘Covert Trilogy’, a series dealing with extra-terrestrial contact and conflict, in an era of mounting climate change and global pandemic. If you enjoyed ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ by Arthur C Clarke, and more recent novels on the theme of AI evolution and ultimate supremacy, then you’ll love this fast-paced alien mystery set in the backdrop of Australia’s remote landscape.
Don’t forget to watch out for the two other novels in the trilogy ‘Covert State’ and ‘Covert Citadel’. Check my website for details:
https://rodneyjensenbooks.com/
Tabella dei contenuti
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
PART 1
CHAPTER 1 Deployment: Nevada USA to Bourke NSW Australia
CHAPTER 2 Pandemic and panic Australia
CHAPTER 3 UFODD Special Agents visit Wirrabera
CHAPTER 4 Departure from Wirrabera
CHAPTER 5 An unexpected turn
CHAPTER 6 More UFO sightings
CHAPTER 7 Tracking down Marshall
CHAPTER 8 The noose tightens
CHAPTER 9 Pandemic at large
CHAPTER 10 Sydney under siege
PART 2
CHAPTER 11 Political machinations
CHAPTER 12 An interrupted opening
CHAPTER 13 Refuge and revelation
CHAPTER 14 Sam and Byron investigate Muldoon Abductions
CHAPTER 15 Behind the media
PART 3
CHAPTER 16 Ulterior motives
CHAPTER 17 Sens and Meg interrogation
CHAPTER 18 UFODD Review
CHAPTER 19 Protocol B
CHAPTER 20 Departure plans
CHAPTER 21 Sam meets the Nest
CHAPTER 22 The Trojan Horse
EPILOGUE
Circa l’autore
Rodney has written three speculative fiction novels, an anthology of short stories based on futuristic fairy tales for adults. He has also contributed to five compilations of short stories through his writers group (Northern Beaches Writers Group based in Sydney).
He has written extensively in the Australian media. He began writing professionally for Australia’s travel and boating magazines, moving on to feature articles on urban design and property. He began screenwriting, and producing short films from 2000 onwards.
His first novel (which has been re-written, and newly published as ‘Covert Messages’) has become a springboard for his interest in speculative fiction, where particular themes include artificial intelligence, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Global Pandemic and the worsening effects of global warming. His trilogy of novels based in the near future in a dystopian Australian era expand on these themes.
Rodney belongs to the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group, is a member of Mark Dawson’s Self Publishing Formula program and belongs to the MEAA Australian writers’ union as a journalist member. Besides writing, his other passions include playing classical guitar, landscape photography, bushwalking, and travel to historic quarters in various corners of the globe.
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