The Dark Matter - Paperback

by Daniel M. Durick (Author)

They're here. Some know. And knowledge is dour.

A brilliant cosmologist has jumped to her death from her office. Her satellite, designed to peer into the hidden architecture of the universe, was destroyed seconds after launch. The official story: a broken woman who had just seen her life's work ignite in the sky. Case closed.

Detective John Prosser doesn't buy it. Not when unmarked federal agents swarm the campus. Not when calls from shadowy officials pressure his department to look the other way. And definitely not when the dead woman's research points to a discovery so dangerous that someone, or something, made sure it never reached orbit.

Officer Reed Jacobs has his own nightmare. Time freezes around him without warning. Figures in human skin say things no person would say. A black pyramid, silent, colossal, impossibly dark, appears above his home. And the beings inside it are taking him against his will, night after night, leaving his mind fractured.

When Prosser discovers that the same CIA operatives investigating the scientist's death are also tailing Reed, the two men join forces. What they uncover is a conspiracy that stretches from classified government programs to the darkest corners of the cosmos. Something is hiding in dark matter, and it wants something from humanity, and one woman gave her life rather than live with what she learned.

The Dark Matter is the gripping first novel in The Tetrad Cycle, a genre-bending thriller that combines the paranormal dread of alien abduction with the procedural tension of a detective mystery. For readers of dark science fiction, UFO thrillers, government conspiracy fiction, and supernatural horror who are looking for a story that asks the questions we're afraid to answer.

Perfect for fans of: Blake Crouch - Dean Koontz - The X-Files - Whitley Strieber - Jeremy Robinson - Dark Skies - Fire in the Sky