Ground Zero (The X-files) - Hardcover

Anderson, Kevin J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002254484 ISBN 13: 9780002254489

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead--he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of The X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved. When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. Gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert, and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimension of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret unifying element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.

About this title

Product Description:

A novel based on THE X-FILES television series, in which FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigate paranormal mysteries and strange unsolved cases which the U.S. government do not want the public to find out about.

From the Back Cover:

A FIFTY-YEAR OLD SECRET WILL NOT DIE

Renowned nuclear weapons researcher, Dr. Gregory, is not only dead – he's been charred to a radioactive cinder in his laboratory at the Edward Teller Nuclear Research Facility near Oakland, California. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialise in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the 'X-Files', strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved.

As Mulder and Scully begin their frustrating work, they confront a tight-lipped Federal bureaucracy whose job it is to stop questions before they are asked. One by one, Mulder and Scully hit dead ends, closed security clearances, and classified documents that no one wants them to see. But that doesn't stop them from ripping the lid of Dr. Gregory's illegal project – a new type of flash nuclear explosive that has all the destructive power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, but with a new design that leaves virtually no radioactive fallout. As they feverishly work to uncover why Dr. Gregory and two others unrelated to his research have died, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0002254484
• ISBN 13: 9780002254489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290