Project Cold Witness
That's going to be the name for my next novel--it's being placed in Cold Storage at present, until I can finish [i]The Twilight Trilogy[/i].
In essence, it's related to the mysterious incidents surrounding the US military base on Orfordness spit, about a mile from where I live on the East Coast of England. The original project, entitled Cobra Mist or System 441A, was an Over-The-Horizon radar station designed to detect Russian and Chinese test missile launches. But a government leak indicates that Cobra Mist (which was dismantled in 1973) was superceded by a project known as Cold Witness--one which has terrifying implications if it turns out to be true.
My dad remembers seeing a twin-rotored prototype helicopter chasing a man in a kyak out to sea, sometime in the 70's. Apparently this guy was paddling as if his life depended on it. I'm making no claims, but maybe this guy was a Russian agent, checking up on Cold Witness? A high amount of Russian trawlers were sighted off the East Coast during that time, after all ...
Personally, I don't care whether it's true or not. The idea of gigantic EMP cannons and weird psychoelectrical experiments on humans sounds a bit far fetched to me, but it will be first class novel material. I'm already starting the research (which will last AGES), but I won't be able to start writing it until about mid 2005. Maybe I can have it as my busman's holiday, to be worked on whenever I feel the need. In any case, I've taken a step into a new dimension--this will be my first non-fantasy novel.
That's going to be the name for my next novel--it's being placed in Cold Storage at present, until I can finish [i]The Twilight Trilogy[/i].
In essence, it's related to the mysterious incidents surrounding the US military base on Orfordness spit, about a mile from where I live on the East Coast of England. The original project, entitled Cobra Mist or System 441A, was an Over-The-Horizon radar station designed to detect Russian and Chinese test missile launches. But a government leak indicates that Cobra Mist (which was dismantled in 1973) was superceded by a project known as Cold Witness--one which has terrifying implications if it turns out to be true.
My dad remembers seeing a twin-rotored prototype helicopter chasing a man in a kyak out to sea, sometime in the 70's. Apparently this guy was paddling as if his life depended on it. I'm making no claims, but maybe this guy was a Russian agent, checking up on Cold Witness? A high amount of Russian trawlers were sighted off the East Coast during that time, after all ...
Personally, I don't care whether it's true or not. The idea of gigantic EMP cannons and weird psychoelectrical experiments on humans sounds a bit far fetched to me, but it will be first class novel material. I'm already starting the research (which will last AGES), but I won't be able to start writing it until about mid 2005. Maybe I can have it as my busman's holiday, to be worked on whenever I feel the need. In any case, I've taken a step into a new dimension--this will be my first non-fantasy novel.
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