Hunt For Zero Point

A fascinating investigative science book, searching for the truth behind aviations's greatest cover ups. In a journey that takes him, via NASA, to the technology secrets of the Third Reich, journalist Nick Cook uncovers some revealing military secrets.

Classic sleuthing journalism - I couldn't put it down

Cook relates his investigations in splendid cloak-and-dagger style with low-lit X-files scenes of secret meetings and nervous witnesses

An extraordinary investigation into avaition's greatest mystery

Nick Cook is one of the UK’s leading defence analysts. Formerly the Aviation Editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the world's premier military affairs journal, he has also written for newspapers around the world. 
 
He is the author of The Hunt For Zero Point, a non-fiction bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in London.

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 later 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 half a 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 the true facts behind 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.

Nick Cook

A vividly drawn, propulsive thriller, that also probes the effects of grief and trauma

This stylish, riveting thriller explodes into a world of 'psychic spies' and dark plots to undermine the world

An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown

This is a highly original, electrifying read ... In less assured hands this could have seemed absurd, but Cook’s crisp, hard-boiled prose makes the outlandish feel alarmingly plausible.

Frightening in its subject matter and brilliantly written. It’s a book you will not want to put down

The Grid takes the thriller to another, deeper level. It’ll grip you and have you thinking hard in equal measure … an absorbing gripper that will have you googling for clues that it might come true

'A highly original, electrifying read' The Times 
'A stylish, riveting thriller' Daily Mail 
'An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown' Sunday Times 
 
The US President Thompson has been dreaming of his own death. A repeating nightmare that hounds him night after night that he can't ignore: something tells him it's not just a dream, it feels too real. 
 
Thompson's doctor, military psychiatrist Josh Cain, is summoned to a church tower near the White House. He thinks he is there to talk down another suicidal ex-Marine. But the man he finds tells him of a plot to kill Thompson, revealing secrets he can't possibly have known - just seconds before a sniper's bullet takes him out . . . 
 
Battles have been fought man to man, then machine to machine, and even in cyberspace. But now there is a different battlefield emerging: human consciousness and the fight for our minds. 
 
What readers are saying: 
 
***** 'A classy, intelligent and reflective investigative thriller.' 
***** 'A layered plot, engaging characters and a spine chilling ring of truth to the plot, which lured me in and kept me trapped until the final page.' 
***** 'A real page turner with plenty of surprises and twists. Great read.' 
***** 'THE BEST BOOK THAT I'VE READ ALL YEAR!'

Nick Cook

Praise for The Grid

A vividly drawn, propulsive thriller, that also probes the effects of grief and trauma

This stylish, riveting thriller explodes into a world of 'psychic spies' and dark plots to undermine the world

An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown

A vividly drawn, propulsive thriller, that also probes the effects of grief and trauma

This stylish, riveting thriller explodes into a world of 'psychic spies' and dark plots to undermine the world

An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown

A vividly drawn, propulsive thriller, that also probes the effects of grief and trauma

This stylish, riveting thriller explodes into a world of 'psychic spies' and dark plots to undermine the world

An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown

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