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A sealed vault discovered in the ruins of ancient Babylon reveals the knowledge of Eridu, “the First City of Mankind.” But what are the records doing in Babylon? Then, two archaeologists discover a terrible secret there. Before they can communicate their findings to anyone, they pay the ultimate price for this discovery with their lives. First, graduate student Harvey Keynes dies, stabbed to death, and then Professor Gregory Pitt is brutally murdered soon after.
DARPA sends agents Kyle Fortnum and Jenna Blakely of the Department of Defense to investigate. However, this is not by choice. Someone, or “something” is blackmailing the agency and Vera Bennington, Kyle and Jenna’s boss, has no choice but to give in to the demands. Now, Kyle is under suspicion, thought to be in collusion with the unknown blackmailer, and so a possible traitor.
Arriving in Iraq, the two agents struggle to solve the riddles of the murders and try to unlock the key to the secrets of the underground chamber. But powerful foes are at work. Kyle and Jenna, along with their friend, “Ant,” a private detective, fight to achieve their goals while trying to stay alive, because someone wants them dead.
All around them dark forces gather, arrayed against them. The world trembles on the brink of a terrible crisis. Then, when an otherworldly Artificial Intelligence alerts them a secret cabal plans to trigger a nuclear war, the two DARPA agents become desperate to stop this.
Theirs is a race against time.
What is the secret that caused the deaths of the two archaeologists? When discovered, Kyle learns it is an earthshaking one. But can the agents keep the clock from ticking down to nuclear Armageddon for all humanity?
Or is the Babylon Effect unstoppable and all their efforts in vain?
The Babylon Effect, by bestseller author Rob Shelsky, is a science fiction suspense novel with all the answers. With the introduction of agents Kyle Fortnum and Jenna Blakely as the protagonists, the thriller world will never be the same again.About the author
Bestselling author and award nominated guest speaker at the Library of Congress, Rob Shelsky, writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as paranormal, historical, and time-travel stories. His paranormal novella, The Crossroads Ghost, was nominated for Best Paranormal Romance 2011 at T.R.R. His nonfiction books on UFOs, Darker Side Of the Moon “They” Are Watching Us, as well as his other book, For The Moon Is Hollow And Aliens Rule The Sky have both been Top Bestsellers for genres at Amazon Kindle. Darker Side Of The Moon stayed in the Top Ten for close to a year.
Rob has a long list of short stories, novellas, and novels at Amazon to his credit, with many making it into the “Top 100 and “Top 10” for genre. No less than five have made it to the Number 1 spot both in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rob’s Serpent’s Teeth, a novella, has just been released in Aberrant Dreams Magazine’s first hardcover anthology, The Awakening. His work is there with such famous authors as Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, and Ian Watson, among others.
Rob’s nonfiction books are A Guide To Writing & Publishing Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (repeatedly made Top 10 for genre at Amazon UK and US), DARKER SIDE OF THE MOON “They” Are Watching Us!, as well as Mysteries of Mothman and Mysteries of Time Travel: 35 Cases Of Time Travel Intrusion. Darker Side Of The Moon is now in publication in Simplified Chinese in China.
