Brilliant air-crash investigator, Josh Mazer, tackles the most challenging case of his life when a secretive government agency recruits him to uncover the cause of a UFO crash in the American Midwest. <br> <br>As Josh works through the salvaged wreckage on a secret military base, he develops an unexpected affinity with the injured and now imprisoned survivor of the crash, an alien code-named Viator. <br> <br>Josh’s sympathy for Viator pits him against his new boss, the powerful General Stauser who is committed to concealing knowledge of alien life from the public – and even from the President. <br> <br>Troubled by his own childhood traumas and fed up with Viator’s inhumane treatment, Josh embarks on an audacious plan to rescue him and reveal his existence. <br> <br>Holding the reader’s interest with plenty of action, romance, and suspense, Viator also raises thought-provoking questions about how the human race should respond to other life forms and whether such knowledge should be classified or revealed. <br>