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The Prometheus Project
Only a Gigantic Hoax kept Earth from the Clutches of
AliensЧbut the Secret was About to be Leaked
THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT

Bob Devaney was a Special Forces soldier in the early 1960s --
until a certain traumatic event, which he refused to discuss even
with his superiors, caused him to leave the Army and set up his
own security and investigative agency, an agency whose one
employee was himself.

Hired by a secret government agency to do undercover work, he
was escorting a mysterious woman named Novak to the White
House when they were ambushed by gunmen. Novak used a
device that worked like an invisibility field to make an impossible
escapeЧand then knocked Devaney out with some kind of ray
gun. When he woke up, he realized that Novak was about to kill him
for knowing too muchЧbut suddenly she received a message:
Devaney was to be recruited for something called the Prometheus
Project.

The Project turned out to be the largest disinformation operation in
history, targeted at the aliens who ruled the galaxy. A man named
Inconnu had arrived in a damaged but highly advanced craft in the
1940s with the information that he had escaped from a group of
humans whom aliens had been studying, and it turned out that
unless the Earth could convince the aliens that the planet had a
unified government, and was armed with technology comparable to
that of the galactic rulers, the Earth would be exploited as a
primitive protectorate.

So far the hoax was workingЧand the technology which Inconnu
had brought with him helpedЧbut someone in the Project was
selling secrets to an interstellar mafia called the Tonkuztra about
the real state of affairs on Earth. And Devaney knew that Chloe
Bryant, the woman he had fallen in love with, was being set up to
take a fall for the real traitor, who was about to embark on a treason
whose consequences could jeopardize the very Universe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve White was an officer in Naval Intelligence, and served in the
Mediterranean and the Vietnam War Zone. Among the popular
science fiction adventure novels he has written for Baen are the
trilogy comprising The Disinherited, Legacy and Debt of Ages,
which combine fast-paced space opera with Arthurian mythology.
He has also written the galaxy-spanning adventure Prince of
Sunset, and its sequel Emperor of Dawn, and the SF suspense
thriller Eagle Against the Stars. With David Weber, he has written
the Starfire series, the latest of which was the New York Times