Black Forest Protocol - Softcover

Wilcox

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1969770090 ISBN 13: 9781969770098

Publisher: Clifton Wilcox, 2026

Synopsis

Germany, 1936. Deep within the Black Forest, something falls from the sky.

SS officer Ernst Falk is stationed on a quiet rural post when the forest itself seems to recoil, where animals vanish, the air vibrates, and the night splits open with a light no human technology should be able to produce. By dawn, a seamless metallic object lies embedded in the earth, warping the trees around it and defying every known law of physics.

It is not wreckage.

It is not dead.

And it is not alone.

Hidden beneath the pines, Falk and a small team of scientists discover survivors, beings not of this world, wounded and terrified. What should have become humanity's first moment of cosmic contact instead becomes a nightmare of secrecy and ambition. The Nazi regime seals the forest, erases witnesses, and delivers the discovery into the hands of the SS and the Ahnenerbe, who see not life but opportunity.

As alien technology is dismantled and alien biology harvested, a terrifying project takes shape: the Blackforest Protocol. Under the direction of fanatical ideologues, the crash is transformed into a weapons program, a genetic experiment, and a propaganda miracle meant to fuse extraterrestrial power with Nazi myth.

But the forest is changing.

The survivors are not silent.

And Falk begins to realize the visitors did not come as conquerors-but as explorers, carrying knowledge that was never meant to be bent into instruments of domination.

Decades later, the consequences of what happened in the Black Forest resurface, dragging the modern world into a buried legacy of stolen technology, erased crimes, and a truth powerful enough to destabilize history itself.

Blending historical horror, science fiction, and psychological suspense, Blackforest Protocol is a chilling alternate-history thriller about first contact gone wrong, where humanity's greatest discovery becomes its most unforgivable crime, and the forest that witnessed it refuses to forget.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Clifton Wilcox is a retired federal employee and college professor. Clifton spends his time writing and traveling with his wife Nargiza and two children, Liyana and Ethan. The Wilcox family splits their time living in Spotsylvania, Virginia, the Dominican Republic, and Kyrgyzstan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clifton Wilcox
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1969770090
• ISBN 13: 9781969770098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394