Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows

· To The Stars
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For those who know... that something is going on... The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn’t. Most, but not everyone. Among those who know what they’ve seen, and—like the toll of a bell that can’t be unrung—are forever changed by it, are a pilot, an heiress, a journalist, and a prisoner of war. From the waning days of the 20th century’s final great war to the fraught fields of Afghanistan to the otherworldly secrets hidden amid Nevada’s dusty neverlands—the truth that is out there will propel each of them into a labyrinth of otherworldly technology and the competing aims of those who might seek to prevent—or harness—these beings of unfathomable power. Because, as it turns out, we are not the only ones who can invent and build...and destroy. Featuring actual events and other truths drawn from sources within the military and intelligence community, Tom DeLonge and A.J. Hartley offer a tale at once terrifying, fantastical, and perhaps all too real. Though it is, of course, a work of... fiction?

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4.7
95 reviews
William Hoffman
November 4, 2018
I'll already knew of the exciting comotion around to the stars and it's illustrious staff, but the suspense with which this book develops caught me off guard. The sorry comes together very well in the middle of the book with many septate storylines converging into one add it approached it climax. All in all a fun and exciting read that primes the reader for future releases.
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Jordan Emrie
August 18, 2016
An entertaining story, great characters. It is made a slight bit more interesting with the faint chance that its shocking and controversial subject matter may be less than fiction.
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Brandon A
February 26, 2018
I couldn't resist the urge to read this book. I wasn't just reading when I was in a waiting room or on the toilet. I found myself reading at home, in bed, with all electronics turned off for the for the first time in years. "Just another cycle through the different storylines" was a theme that I felt over and over as nearly 500 pages melted away like a wax house in the Nevada desert. I rank this book somewhere way up at the top. I'm talking Harry Potter territory.
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About the author

Tom DeLonge is an award-winning producer, director and multi-platinum recording artist best known as the lead vocalst in blink-182. He lives in San Diego, California where he runs his entertainment production company To The Stars.. that focuses on science-fiction transmedia storytelling. A.J. Hartley is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of books in a variety of genres and was born and raised in Lancashire in Northern England,. AJ’s stories are driven by mystery and danger but also reflect his abiding interest in archaeology, history, and foreign travel. As an English major at Manchester University he took extra classes in Egyptology and got a job working on a Bronze Age site just outside Jerusalem. Since then, life has taken him to many places around the world, and though he always leaned more towards the literary than to the strictly historical, his fascination with the past continues unabated. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Boston University, and he is the Russell Robinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and works as a scholar, screenwriter, dramaturg and theatre director.

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