Codename: Copernicus Paradox

by Robert Anthony

From the Author of No Cure for Darkness and The First Ring comes the next thrilling novel from Robert Anthony.


Copernicus Paradox

A clandestine meeting in the basement of the CIA Headquarters reveals the codename for a top-secret collaboration between multiple agencies. The members of the meeting size each other up and prepare for a briefing on the new project. A beautiful Asian American woman with almond eyes and long dark hair leans to her colleague and whispers, “Don’t trust anyone.” The badge hanging from her coat Dr. Kimberly Wu, PhD, DCDS, NASA, Contractor.

Charlie Poole is an aeronautical engineer with 40 years of experience – 20 with the Air Force and 20 with NASA. Widowed and with no family, Charlie is fired from his job as Launch Director at the Kennedy Space Center to make room for the new generation of space engineers. Bitter, lonely, and angry, he takes a job at a remote, environmental research station in Antarctica, where he discovers a mysterious signal coming from deep space. The signal is from a stranded US space shuttle. Charlie learns the shuttle is on a secret mission, but not all is as it appears. The captain and first officer confide in Charlie that the other is working with the Chinese to thwart their mission. Charlie becomes entangled with a mysterious woman named Dr. Wu, who is the key to knowing who to trust…or is she?

342 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 26, 2025

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