The Prometheus Project
 Only
a Gigantic Hoax Kept the
Earth from Being Taken Over by Aliens—
but the Secret was About
to be Leaked by a Traitor in
THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT
Bob Devaney was a soldier in the Special Forces in
the early 1960s until a traumatic event which he refused to discuss
caused him to leave, setting up his own security and investigative
agency, with one employee: himself.
Often 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 like an invisibility field
to make an impossible escape—and then knocked Devaney out with some kind
of ray-tube. When he woke up, Novak was about to terminate him for
knowing too much, but a message arrived from a mysterious individual
known as Mr. Inconnu: 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. Mr. 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 unless the Earth could convince the aliens that the
planet had a unified government, armed with technology comparable to
that of the galactic rulers, the Earth would be exploited as a primitive
protectorate.
So far the hoax was working—and the technology which Mr. Inconnu had
brought with him helped—but 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 beyond imagination, whose
consequences could jeopardize the universe itself.
But matters would turn out to be even more complicated than that—and
Devaney would discover the strange relationship between himself and the
enigmatic Mr. Inconnu. . . .
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 best seller The Shiva Option. His most recent novel is
Forge of the Titans. He currently works for a legal publishing company
in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is married and has three daughters.
Cover painting by Bob Eggleton
Cover design by Jennie Faries
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