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A network of satellites known as GODS is under attack, literally and politically, when its maker goes missing, forcing a former soldier into the role of world-saving hero.
The Guardian Orbital Defense System, a network of 104 satellites shielding the U.S. from missile attacks and establishing American hegemony in orbital space, will soon be fully operational. From its inception, mystery and controversy have surrounded the system. Dr. Harold Symes, the scientist who designed the system's artificial intelligence, has disappeared, leaving a calendar containing enigmatic "TM" notations. Political opponents of the system, led by Senator Leila Kahlid-Conroy, are raising doubts about the safety of the system, asserting that its artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable and dangerous. And the system's satellites are under attack from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian hackers and antisatellite weapons.
While FBI Special Agent Christine Lasco, investigates the disappearances of Dr. Symes and retired Supreme Court Justice Warren Winton, whose personal calendar also contains the mysterious "TM" entries, attacks on the Guardian system continue. Aided by Senator Kahlid-Conroy, foreign governments attempt to abduct the system's primary architect, Dr. Stanley Jacobson. Equipped with ingenious weapons designed by Dr. Jacobson, Mac Slade, the fiancé of Special Agent Lasco, engages in spectacular firefights with the abductors. But Slade cannot defend Dr. Jacobson or the Guardian system from the political campaign that threatens to shut the system down or from Project Supernova, the Chinese plot to destroy the four huge satellites that contain the Guardian system's artificial intelligence.
Will the Senate Committee on Armed Services deactivate the Guardian Orbital Defense System, known as GODS, or will Project Supernova destroy it? Only at the end, when the mystery of the "TM" entries is solved, will the fate of GODS and the destiny of Mac Slade be determined.

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Date de parution	16 février 2022
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EAN13	9781665549257
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TM
A MIND-EXPANDING MYSTERY ADVENTURE
H. D. ROGERS

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/03/2022

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CONTENTS
PrologueHistorical Antecedents

Chapter 1Slade
Chapter 2GODS
Chapter 3Fatherless Child
Chapter 4Without a Trace
Chapter 5Isolation
Chapter 6Tashkent Conference
Chapter 7TM
Chapter 8ASI
Chapter 9Spetsnaz
Chapter 10Flights Incognito
Chapter 11Operation Achilles
Chapter 12Calendars
Chapter 13Rendezvous
Chapter 14Distractions
Chapter 15President’s Vow
Chapter 16Mangeshkar
Chapter 17Teterboro
Chapter 18Black Box
Chapter 19Man with a Plan
Chapter 20Perilous Journey: Part 1
Chapter 21Teleconference
Chapter 22Perilous Journey: Part 2
Chapter 23CBI
Chapter 24Spetsnaz Plan
Chapter 25Chinese Satellites
Chapter 26The Test
Chapter 27New Delhi Connection
Chapter 28The Attack
Chapter 29Aftermath
Chapter 30Subpoenas
Chapter 31Operation Nemesis
Chapter 32The Hearing
Chapter 33Vigilante
Chapter 34Demonstrations
Chapter 35Confrontation
Chapter 36Secret Group
Chapter 37Grand Jury
Chapter 38White Plains
Chapter 39Setup
Chapter 40Themis
Chapter 41Revenge
Chapter 42The Search
Chapter 43ERT
Chapter 44Forensics
Chapter 45Nano Devices
Chapter 46Holy Grail
Chapter 47Bomber
Chapter 48Ambush
Chapter 49NEMP
Chapter 50DARPA
Chapter 51Project Supernova
Chapter 52ICU
Chapter 53The Arrest
Chapter 54The Speech
Chapter 55Skunkworks
Chapter 56New Targets
Chapter 57Personal Effects
Chapter 58President’s Son
Chapter 59Civilian Targets
Chapter 60Quds Force Assassins
Chapter 61Uncontrollable?
Chapter 62Assassination
Chapter 63Voice of GODS
Chapter 64Hostage
Chapter 65Super Soldier
Chapter 66Rescue Mission
Chapter 67Judgment Day
Chapter 68Guardian
Chapter 69Final Judgments

EpilogueRevelations

The greatest threats to civilization
are ideologies and religions that justify
and encourage their proliferation through aggression.
—Stanley Aaron Jacobson, PhD
PROLOGUE
HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS
In 1983, US President Ronald Regan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the “Star Wars” program, to develop a ground- and space-based shield against nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), presumably from the Soviet Union. During the following year, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was formed to oversee the research and development of antiballistic missile technology, including directed-energy weapons and computerized missile targeting and tracking systems. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization requested a feasibility study by the American Physical Society to evaluate the technology available for effective directed-energy weapons. In its 1987 report of that study, the American Physical Society concluded that none of the existing directed-energy weapon systems had adequate energy output to effectively defend against ICBMs. Thereafter, the approach to missile defense shifted primarily to the development of ground-based interceptor missile systems, but none was ever demonstrated to be capable of shielding the United States against a large-scale ICBM attack.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the perceived need for a shield against a large-scale ICBM attack appeared greatly diminished. But the arms race continued, and by the early twenty-first century, the United States’ major adversaries, China and Russia, had developed hypersonic missiles that could fly and maneuver at speeds exceeding Mach 5, five times the speed of sound. Russia claimed its Avangard missiles, called “hypersonic glide vehicles,” could fly at Mach 27 and maneuver to evade existing missile defense systems. A federally funded study by the RAND Corporation concluded that the threat of a missile attack was further increased by the potential proliferation of hypersonic weapons to “lesser powers” that could use them to threaten major nations. Unfortunately, such “lesser powers” included rogue nations that sponsored terrorism, which increased the risk that terrorist groups would eventually acquire and use such weapons against the United States.
In the early twenty-first century, the US missile defense comprised ground-based interceptor missile systems and an early-warning system, the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) of the US Space Force. SBIRS utilized four geosynchronous satellites and two high elliptical orbit satellites to provide global coverage. But because hypersonic missiles could evade interceptor missiles, early warning from SBIRS would likely be ineffectual. Furthermore, the security of the SBIRS satellites was undermined by the space-based weapons, including killer satellites, of enemies of the United States. Recognizing the inadequacy of SBIRS, US President Arlen McDonald turned to the largest American military contractor, Fortrell Industries, to revive the SDI program and create an effective missile shield for the United States.
From its beginning, the new program, officially named the Guardian Orbital Defense System (GODS), faced strong opposition. Inside the United States, political opponents of President McDonald’s administration initially asserted that the cost of the system was too high. After construction of the system commenced, they vociferously proclaimed that the risks posed by GODS exceeded the security it would provide. Outside the United States, enemies denounced the program as an attempt to spy on them and to dominate the military high ground of orbital space, despite their own attempts to do so.
Nevertheless, six years after the program began, having overcome both political opposition and various setbacks, including the disappearance of the scientist who had designed the GODS artificial intelligence system, GODS was nearing completion. Soon GODS, the world’s most advanced and expensive network of military satellites, would become operational.
CHAPTER 1
SLADE
In the eerie, early-morning darkness, six heavily armed men clad in military-grade body armor scrambled out of a sinister-looking, black, stealth helicopter onto the roof of a massive, three-story research facility outside Los Alamos, New Mexico. When the pilot pointed at one of the roof’s security cameras, the assault team leader shook his head and remarked, “They’re offline; we have someone on the inside.”
One of the team members quickly anchored a long polyester climbing rope to the helicopter’s landing gear and threw the other end over the side of the building. One by one the men hooked their rappelling devices to the rope and began quietly lowering themselves to the rear entrance of Laboratory Delta, one of four huge labs at the Fortrell Industries compound. A few minutes later, at exactly 3:00 a.m., the first-floor security guard, George Avery, who had disabled the facility’s security system, opened the heavy steel door to the rear entrance.
Having heard the muted thrumming of the stealth helicopter, the second-floor guard walked to the closest window and peered into the darkness, searching for the source of the noise. Seeing nothing, he turned and happened to glance at a hallway security camera. He immediately noticed that a red LED on the camera was no longer glowing. He quickly walked to the next hallway camera and saw its LED was also unlit. Then he ran to the security control center, where he found all the security monitors shut off. As he started to turn the security system back on, an assault team member came through the doorway and immediately shot him in the back of the head.
Murry Jameson, the third-floor security guard, had also heard the sound of the helicopter and phoned Avery, who said he would investigate. While waiting for a report from Avery, Jameson heard the gunshot on the floor below. He ran to a stairwell and decended hurriedly to the second floor. Peering through a small window in the second-floor stairwell door, Jameson observed three heavily armored men carrying automatic weapons. One appeared to be giving directions to the other two, who then turned and began walking in Jameson’s direction. Jameson, armed only with a pistol, knew he was no match for armored invaders with machine guns. Now fearing for his life, he hurriedly descended the stairwell to the first floor.
Cautiously exiting the stairwell, Jameson anxio