The Frequency

In 1972, the CIA destroyed the records of its most dangerous program. But one scientist saved the data - because he knew what it proved.

A small percentage of human subjects, under specific electromagnetic conditions, could perceive events at a distance. No known sensory channel. No physical explanation. Just the data - and the brain damage that came with it.

Fifty years later, Elliot Ward - a DIA counterintelligence officer counting the days to retirement - is handed a stack of medical files. American diplomats, attacked overseas by an invisible weapon. The assignment is bureaucratic busywork. Ward is supposed to write a two-page memo and move on.

He doesn't move on.

Because the victims aren't random. Ninety-three percent are signals intelligence officers - the people who listen, who watch, who track what adversaries are building. Someone is targeting America's eyes and ears with a directed-energy weapon. And three of those victims served at a facility that appears in no database Ward can access.

SITE MERIDIAN.

The investigation that follows spans five decades - from the ashes of MKUltra to Stanford's psychic spies, from a forty-year CIA mole buried inside a powerful consciousness organization to a black site in the Nevada desert where the program's greatest assets have been held for decades. What the government discovered about the human mind was extraordinary. What it did with that discovery was a crime.

Now Ward has the evidence. But exposing a program this deeply classified means becoming its next target. The people who built the weapon know how to use it. And the secret they're protecting isn't just what they found - it's what they did to the people who found it for them.

A thriller spanning the Cold War to the present day, The Frequency asks: What happens when the government discovers that human consciousness is a weapon - and decides to pull the trigger?

For readers of John le Carré, Tom Clancy, and Jason Matthews.