Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Release Date: February 15, 2022
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thrillers / Suspense
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus
Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an
outlandish proposal—to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the
Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A
skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora's
excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site,
faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities. Special
Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora’s excavation
proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly inexplicable,
Corrie’s homicide investigation throws open a Pandora's box of espionage
and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful force that will
stop at nothing to protect its secrets—and that threatens to engulf them
all in an unimaginable fate.
Diablo Mesa is the Third installment in author(s) Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Nora Kelly series. The third installment in the Nora Kelly series reimagines the Manhattan Project as a clandestine arms race with even more intrigue than previously thought, concealing a tantalizing mystery. Nora faces a crisis of conscience when her nemesis, Dr. Marcelle Weingru, President of the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, suggest that Nora take part in a UFO dig financed by billionaire Lucas Tappan of Icarus Space System.
You could legitimately call Lucas Tappan Elon Musk/Richard Branson because of everything that he's involved in. After being passed over for a much deserved promotion for her work over the past two novels, and putting her life on the line in uncovering dangerous secrets, Nora, in a moment of clarity, dares Weingru to fire her. She's had enough of being disrespected. She has zero desire of ruining her career on a wild goose chase. After being offered a first hand look at the Roswell site where an alleged UFO crashed in 1947 by Tappan, she's not really sure if it is something she wants on her resume.
After learning that her brother Skip has taken the job working with Artifact Curator Noam Bitem, Nora, as the primary archaeologist, accepts the assignment and is put in charge of the dig. The dig site is at a remote spot called Diablo Mesa, the spot where an alien spaceship is believed by some to have crashed - an event the government has tried to cover up ever since. When a pair of not so well-buried bodies turns up early on and it seems great pains have been taken to hide their identities, Nora gets suspicious. To maintain integrity of the site itself, Nora calls in her friend and FBI Special Agent Corrie Swanson, who is also a forensic anthropologist.
With a little push of encouragement from her supervisor, Special Agent Hale Morwood, Corrie's investigation uncovers a different facet of the areas
intriguing history. Through a nasty turn of events, her mentor who was looking at giving Corrie more cases of her own, ends up murdered in a brutal way. Soon thereafter, she ends up assigned
a new FBI mentor who may be more of a threat, than a supporter. Upon closer investigation, the reader will learn that there's a covert group that has been secretly kept intact since the first Roswell incident and it reaches deep into the NSA, FBI, CIA, and DIA.
When the dig resumes, it's fraught with mystery and danger. Nora unearths more clues that lead to more questions than answers and that puts her on a deadly path to previously said secret group. Neither Nora nor Corrie are about to quit or back down, at least until things start to happen that could force the issue and possibly even bring their careers to a permanent end. Nora and Corrie will face a Government cover-up, a secret rogue agency, spies, as well as history as they've never knew it before.
Over the course of the first two installments, Nora and Corrie's friend/mentor Pendergast showed up at the end of the story to prove his superiority. This time, it is all on Corrie and Nora to get themselves out of trouble with a little help from a Sheriff who Corrie may be romantically interested in. This story is reality based conjecture and speculation as to what really happened in 1947. Even though some secrets have finally been released due to FOA requests, and declassification of documents, it is or was either a secretive weather balloon that was testing for Soviet nuclear weapons, or it was an alien spaceship that crashed and skipped to another location.
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