This book reads like a detective story, a thriller or science
fiction. Yet it's a work of non-fiction based on a decade's worth
of investigation, interviews and archive research. The fact that
the author, Nick Cook, is Aviation Editor for Jane's Defence Weekly
gives this tale of hush-hush conspiracies and anti-gravity
technology a real air of credibility. Cook maintains that during
the Second World War Nazi scientists made a breakthrough in
counter-gravitational research that resulted in workable projects.
He further maintains that research into anti-gravity has been
ongoing in the United States for decades. But that information has
been deliberately suppressed and misinformation spread so no one
can confirm the existence of this highly classified technology.
Cook started researching when he mysteriously came across an
article from 1956 in which the US aerospace and defence industry
seemed to declare that gravity-control was within reach. But then
nothing, at least according to the official version. Now Cook's
curiosity is roused and he sets off like a knight-errant in search
of the 'Holy Grail' of aerospace propulsion technologies, as he
puts it. To do this he must enter the strange world of Pentagon
spooks. Cook may not prove anything but he makes outlandish fantasy
seem plausible. It seems undeniable that attempts have been made to
harness gravity in the last century. Who knows what the 21st
century will bring? And whether you believe any of it or not,
Cook's account is written in an engrossing and entertaining manner
which makes the book hard to put down. (Kirkus UK)
In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new breed of fuelless transport systems - and weapons beyond our imagination. Of course it never happened. Or did it? Forty years on a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediction forces a highly sceptical aerospace and defence journalist, Nick Cook, to consider the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code - and has covered up ever since. His investigations moved from the corridors of NASA to the dark heartland of America's classified weapons establishment, where it became clear that a half century ago, in the dying days of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists were racing to perfect a Pandora's Box of high technology that would deliver Germany from defeat.
History says that they failed. But the trail that takes Cook deep into the once-impenetrable empire of SS General Hans Kammler - the man charged by Adolf Hitler with perfecting German secret weapons technology - says otherwise. In his pursuit of Kammler, Cook finally establishes the truth: America is determined to hang onto its secrets, but the stakes are enormous and others are now in the race to acquire a suppressed technology.
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