Wonder Weapon

by J. Christopher Logan

During World War II, German advanced weapons prototypes were called wunderwaffen or wonder weapons. The Nazi quest to build such weapons often utilized scientific, historical and even occult resources. One such project involved the retrieval of meteors for metallurgical study and nuclear reserch. In 1941 a German archeological team uncovered historical evidence of a meteor that may have held the key to Germany's nuclear weapons program. The project leader tasked with finding its exact location vanished on the eve of a major breakthrough. As the war intensified, the search for the meteor and the rare earth elements it might possess was scrapped and forgotten. In the present day, the United States receives the actual research compiled by the missing German archeologist and a warning that former East German agents have begun searching for the same meteorite. Faced with the choice of doing nothing or interceding, an Air Force intelligence officer assembles a team and launches his own investigation, reassembling the historical research in an attempt to determine the possible threat from the meteor legend. As the team races to solve the mystery, they learn that what fell to Earth is more dangerous than even the Nazis could have imagined in their darkest dreams. And it has a protector.

294 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2011