Horror meets coming-of-age in this thrilling novel in which forgotten Cold War mysteries make a terrifying reappearance, from a writer Stephen King has called \u201ca master.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
On a clear October day, the American skies empty after hundreds of 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 a simple and urgent request:\u00a0do not fly today<\/i>.<\/p>\n
There are a few concerning elements to the calls. None of the mothers remember making them\u2014and some of the mothers are dead.<\/p>\n
While the nation\u2019s military chiefs and artificial intelligence experts mobilize in search of answers, a sixteen-year-old girl named Charlie on the coast of Maine watches a strange, silvery balloon drift across the water and toward her home\u2014a place she loathes. Her father\u2019s dream of opening a craft brewery on an old airfield has been a disaster, and all she wants is an escape back to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s about to get much more than that.<\/p>\n
Her new home is ground zero for a story that begins at a remote naval base in Indiana during the winter of 1962, when a physicist named Martin Hazelton discovered something extraordinary\u2014and deadly. All Hazelton wanted was time to seek an explanation, but pressure from both American and Russian actors forced him into a perilous race.<\/p>\n
Moving between the two characters and timelines, Scott Carson deftly weaves Cold War espionage with contemporary terror in a story that explains why #1\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller Joe Hill has declared himself \u201ca fan for life.\u201d<\/p>\n