The call is received by young new hire Bethany Stewart, who is told to seek out Travis Chase, an ex-cop, ex-convict and principal protagonist in the first book. As a last act of desperation, Campbell makes an urgent call to Yuma, Arizona, where a top secret underground facility lies. Shortly after the meeting, the motorcade is attacked by heavily armed professional soldiers or special forces. What would you do with only a few months to kill?įaced with the terrifying prospect, Campbell and her colleagues share the information with the President of the United States. What's worse is that she knows whatever happens will happen in a few months in the present timeline. While eroded, buildings stand empty and some cities are inexplicably without cars as if everyone had stopped what they were doing and drove away. Paige Campbell is one of the first to see an empty world, already being reclaimed by nature. Someone wants to reset the world and, based on a glimpse of the world 70 years into the future, has either succeeded or failed miserably. One of these fantastic technologies, tied to time travel, accidentally uncovers a conspiracy on a grand scale. The original debut thriller focused on what would happen if people had access to technology millions of years advanced. Ghost Country combines conspiracy, time travel, and the fantastic.Īlthough Ghost Country can stand alone as a novel, it relies in part on the deeply rich universe created in Lee's first novel, The Breach. Such well-intended latter purposes are partly tapped in Patrick Lee's techno-thriller Ghost Country.

It also occurs around power lines and has been explored for weaponization in the past. And some say he was extremely close to collecting the natural ELF produced by the planet. Buried deep beneath federal agencies as one of the darkest black programs, technologies tapping it can theoretically target individuals and groups (with or without implants) to be used for mind control, physiological damage, electronic failures, weather manipulation, and free energy.ĮLF was initially discovered by Nikola Tesla. Extreme Low Frequency (ELF) conspiracies have existed for some time.

Ghost Country by Patrick Lee