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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. UAP Task Force Delta: Blood and ShadowsWhen the mission is off the books. failure isn't an option.From military thriller author Gary A. Covella comes a pulse-pounding fusion of black ops warfare, clandestine UAP programs, and terrifying first contact. UAP Task Force Delta: Blood and Shadows delivers cinematic action, grounded realism, and chilling alien horror in a relentless, high-stakes story.The Mission That Never ExistedDeep in the Nevada desert, seven elite operators are summoned for a mission so classified it exists only in whispered code. Under the command of bald, battle-hardened Commander Kerry, the unit known as UAP Task Force Delta is deployed to secure the wreckage of an unidentified craft before foreign powers-or the public-ever learn the truth.Expecting twisted metal and radiation, they instead uncover something still humming with power: a crashed black UAP half-buried in the sand, a silent gray alien suspended inside a glowing containment capsule, and evidence that someone has been here before. Then the first shadow moves in the dust, and Delta comes face to face with a ruthless reptilian entity that hunts with intelligence, rage, and purpose.Seven Soldiers. One Secret. No Way Out.As the night closes in, communications fail, systems glitch, and orders from command start to contradict everything Kerry knows about protocol and survival. Data ripped from the wreck reveals a buried history of human experimentation, hybridization, and weaponized alien technology. Someone inside the chain of command is willing to sacrifice Delta to protect the program.Trapped between the lies of their own government and a predator born of another world, Kerry and his seven-person team must fight their way through sabotage, psychological warfare, and inhuman threats to stop a technology that should never have been awakened.The Enemy Within. and BeyondWhen rogue scientist Dr. Li and his secret research are exposed, Delta uncovers a horrifying agenda: merge alien intelligence with human soldiers and turn Earth into the proving ground. Every step closer to the heart of the facility forces Kerry to choose between obedience and conscience, secrecy and survival.What began as a recovery operation becomes a last stand. If Delta fails, the next evolution of warfare will not be human at all.If You Love.Tom Clancy-style military realism with authentic tactics and command decisions, Michael Crichton and James Rollins-level science thriller tension, Alien, Predator, and UAP conspiracies that feel disturbingly plausible, Tight-knit special operations teams making impossible choices under fire, High-octane, cinematic storytelling that reads like a blockbuster film, .then UAP Task Force Delta: Blood and Shadows belongs on your shelf.About the AuthorGary A. Covella is the author of acclaimed UFO and military history titles including Unidentified: The Evolution of the Modern Day UFO and other dark, fact-infused thrillers. Drawing on deep research into classified programs, Cold War intelligence, and modern UAP investigations, Covella blends authenticity with relentless suspense to create stories that feel one classified briefing away from reality.Brace for a covert op you were never meant to know about.Because once you read this file, you are part of it. This item is printed o Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. SKYHOOKEDThe Untold Shocking True Story of Project COLDFEET and the Fulton Balloon GrabTwo men. A drifting Soviet ice station. No runway. No rescue team.Only a balloon. and a split-second gamble with death.At the height of the Cold War, when the Arctic was a silent battleground and secrets were buried beneath miles of ice, the CIA launched one of the most daring intelligence missions in American history. Its name was Project COLDFEET-and failure was not an option.In SKYHOOKED, historian and investigator Gary Covella, Ph.D. pulls readers into a covert operation so audacious it sounds like fiction, yet every detail is terrifyingly real.A Mission the World Was Never Meant to KnowDeep in the frozen Arctic Ocean, a massive Soviet drifting ice station-abandoned in haste-continued to float silently across hostile waters. Inside were classified documents, advanced surveillance equipment, and intelligence that could tilt the balance of the Cold War.The problem was getting to it.And the bigger problem was getting out.Two American operatives parachuted onto the unstable ice with limited time, brutal conditions, and no conventional extraction plan. As the ice cracked and the station threatened to sink beneath the sea, Washington authorized a last-ditch solution so radical it bordered on madness.The Fulton Balloon Grab: Extraction at the Edge of PhysicsThe escape plan relied on a revolutionary and untested system: A weather balloon, a steel cable, and a low-flying aircraft hurtling through Arctic winds.Known as the Fulton Balloon Recovery System, the technique required a man to be lifted violently into the air-snatched mid-flight by a specially equipped aircraft-while traveling at high speed over a frozen wasteland.There would be no second attempt.Mistime it, and the cable would snap.Miss the hook, and the man would vanish into the ice below.Get it wrong, and the aircraft itself could be destroyed.History Written in Ice, Wind, and WireWith cinematic precision and rigorous research, SKYHOOKED reconstructs the mission moment by moment-from the political pressure inside the CIA, to the psychological strain on the men on the ice, to the terrifying seconds as the balloon rose and the aircraft closed in.This is not just a story about technology.It is a story about human nerve, innovation born of desperation, and the price of secrecy.Covella separates myth from fact, examines the real science behind the Fulton system, and reveals how this operation reshaped intelligence recovery and covert aviation forever.Why SKYHOOKED Is Unlike Any Other Cold War BookA true story more suspenseful than a thrillerRarely discussed CIA Arctic operationsDetailed breakdown of the Fulton Balloon Recovery SystemFirst-hand accounts, declassified records, and historical analysisA forgotten mission that changed espionage historyFor Readers Who Love: Cold War espionage - CIA covert missions - Military innovation - Aviation history - True stories today's thrillers wish they could matchSKYHOOKED is a chilling reminder that some of the Cold War's most dangerous battles were fought not with missiles-but with courage, ingenuity, and a single cable stretched between life and death.Once you start reading, you won't look away. This Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a Massachusetts kitchen on the evening of January 25, 1967, the lights flickered. What happened next would reshape American culture for half a century.Betty Andreasson was thirty, a Finnish-American housewife raising seven children. Her husband was in the hospital. Her elderly father stood at the kitchen window when the power dipped. Through the glass, he saw small figures in the snowy yard. He described them as Halloween-like.Then the lights came back on. The figures were gone.For ten years, that was the entire story.Then a hypnotist sat down with her in 1977.Across fourteen sessions in suburban Saugus, Betty Andreasson recovered a story so vivid and theologically charged that it would become the foundational case of the entire American alien abduction phenomenon. Floating bodies. Examination tables. Bird-emblems and chambers of light. A direct message from a being who identified himself as the God of the Old Testament.Investigator Raymond Fowler turned the transcripts into The Andreasson Affair in 1979. Budd Hopkins built on the methodology. Whitley Strieber's Communion sold two million copies. John Mack carried the framework into Harvard. By the late 1980s, the Roper Poll claimed 3.7 million Americans had been abducted.The figure Betty Andreasson sketched at her kitchen table in 1980 became the most reproduced extraterrestrial image in human history. It is the alien on every Halloween costume, every airport T-shirt, every smartphone emoji.It is also not what her family saw on January 25, 1967.This is the book that finally tells the whole story.Drawing on declassified files, archived hypnotic transcripts, and the published scholarship of memory scientists Elizabeth Loftus, Susan Clancy, and Richard McNally, The Abduction reconstructs how an ordinary mystery in a working-class kitchen became the most influential alien abduction case in the world.Inside these pages: How Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, released between Betty's spring and summer hypnosis sessions, may have shaped her narrative in real time.Why a Pulitzer-winning Harvard psychiatrist stood before a fourteen-month internal investigation in 1994.What Budd Hopkins's own ex-wife revealed in a devastating 2011 essay about the methodological collapse she documented from inside their marriage.The disturbing 2007 email from Betty Andreasson's own stepson, declaring the entire case a hoax.How the same methodology that produced the abduction cases also produced the satanic-ritual-abuse panic of the 1980s.The answer to the question driving the book from page one: was Betty Andreasson lying?The answer is no. And it is the harder, more important truth.Betty Andreasson believed every word. She told it on the Today show in 1980, on Ancient Aliens in 2014, and the day before she died in March 2022, at age eighty-five.What she did not tell, and what no one had told before, is the documentary truth of how the case was built. By a hypnotist whose framework treated constructed material as memory. By an investigator who would eventually identify himself as an abductee. By a publishing industry that needed the next Communion. By a culture that already knew what an alien was supposed to look like.The Abduction is the meticulous, devastating investigation of how one woman's quiet January evening became the foundation of an industry, the template for a generation of false memories, and the visual vocabulary humanity now uses to imagine intelligent life beyond the Earth. T Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. UAP Task Force Delta: Blood and ShadowsWhen the mission is off the books. failure isn't an option.From military thriller author Gary A. Covella comes a pulse-pounding fusion of black ops warfare, clandestine UAP programs, and terrifying first contact. UAP Task Force Delta: Blood and Shadows delivers cinematic action, grounded realism, and chilling alien horror in a relentless, high-stakes story.The Mission That Never ExistedDeep in the Nevada desert, seven elite operators are summoned for a mission so classified it exists only in whispered code. Under the command of bald, battle-hardened Commander Kerry, the unit known as UAP Task Force Delta is deployed to secure the wreckage of an unidentified craft before foreign powers-or the public-ever learn the truth.Expecting twisted metal and radiation, they instead uncover something still humming with power: a crashed black UAP half-buried in the sand, a silent gray alien suspended inside a glowing containment capsule, and evidence that someone has been here before. Then the first shadow moves in the dust, and Delta comes face to face with a ruthless reptilian entity that hunts with intelligence, rage, and purpose.Seven Soldiers. One Secret. No Way Out.As the night closes in, communications fail, systems glitch, and orders from command start to contradict everything Kerry knows about protocol and survival. Data ripped from the wreck reveals a buried history of human experimentation, hybridization, and weaponized alien technology. Someone inside the chain of command is willing to sacrifice Delta to protect the program.Trapped between the lies of their own government and a predator born of another world, Kerry and his seven-person team must fight their way through sabotage, psychological warfare, and inhuman threats to stop a technology that should never have been awakened.The Enemy Within. and BeyondWhen rogue scientist Dr. Li and his secret research are exposed, Delta uncovers a horrifying agenda: merge alien intelligence with human soldiers and turn Earth into the proving ground. Every step closer to the heart of the facility forces Kerry to choose between obedience and conscience, secrecy and survival.What began as a recovery operation becomes a last stand. If Delta fails, the next evolution of warfare will not be human at all.If You Love.Tom Clancy-style military realism with authentic tactics and command decisions, Michael Crichton and James Rollins-level science thriller tension, Alien, Predator, and UAP conspiracies that feel disturbingly plausible, Tight-knit special operations teams making impossible choices under fire, High-octane, cinematic storytelling that reads like a blockbuster film, .then UAP Task Force Delta: Blood and Shadows belongs on your shelf.About the AuthorGary A. Covella is the author of acclaimed UFO and military history titles including Unidentified: The Evolution of the Modern Day UFO and other dark, fact-infused thrillers. Drawing on deep research into classified programs, Cold War intelligence, and modern UAP investigations, Covella blends authenticity with relentless suspense to create stories that feel one classified briefing away from reality.Brace for a covert op you were never meant to know about.Because once you read this file, you are part of it. This item Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.