Title: Authority
Description: For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X, a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than two hundred hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves.
Subjects: Literary, Fantasy, Fiction, Scientific expeditions, Discoveries in geography, General, FICTION, Quests (Expeditions), Psychic ability, Scientists, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fantasy / General, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2014-05-25, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, suspense, Scientists, fiction, Body horror, Horror, Fiction, science fiction, general, Intelligence officers, Secrecy, Science fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense