Retrieval. A Thriller (en Inglés) - C. Scott Lannon

A whistleblower with proof of a secret crash-retrieval program is murdered before he can testify. The evidence is still out there.

Former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ben Kovac lost his career, his marriage, and his security clearance when he tried to report what he saw in a classified briefing: proof that the U.S. government has been recovering non-human technology for sixty years. Now a dying whistleblower contacts him with documents that could blow the program wide open - but before Kovac can reach him, the man is dead, and a cleanup team is erasing every trace of his existence. Kovac's only chance to recover the evidence is an unlikely alliance with Nora Radford, a Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist who thinks he is delusional. She does not believe in UFOs. She believes in proof. And the proof keeps arriving - classified memos, murdered witnesses, a trail of redacted documents leading from the halls of Congress to the underground vaults of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Someone inside the most secret program in American history is killing the people scheduled to testify, and Kovac and Radford are running out of witnesses.

For readers of Brad Thor and Blake Crouch who are hungry for a thriller grounded in the real UAP disclosure events making headlines right now, Retrieval delivers white-knuckle espionage pacing with reality-bending revelations - and a level of tradecraft authenticity that treats the subject with the seriousness it demands. No little green men. No tin-foil hats. Just two professionals who trust evidence over belief, chasing a secret so deeply buried that the people protecting it believe disclosure would end civilization.

In Retrieval, you will find:
- Real SCIF procedures, Congressional hearing dynamics, and intelligence tradecraft woven into every chapter - the kind of deeply researched detail that plays like a movie in your head
- A reluctant believer-skeptic partnership built on the tension between a disgraced analyst who has seen what he has seen and a journalist whose only question is "Can you prove it?"
- A villain who never raises his voice - because when you have controlled the most dangerous secret in human history for fifty years, you do not need to

Retrieval is the kind of book you read in one sitting. Begin The Disclosure Files series today.