The Circle: The desert is no place to get lost

The Triangle Trilogy #3

by Ed Adams

Don’t play with fire in the desert. Its secrets can burn you. Hit Route 66, Los Alamos and the spirits of Navajo when Chuck Manners, Bigsy and Clare receive an invitation from a cancelled missile testing project. Just don't look up.

429 pages, Paperback

Published July 26, 2023

About the author

Ed Adams writes systems fiction—novels about control, alignment, and the structures that operate just beyond visibility. His work moves through technology, finance, and power, following characters who recognise patterns early, and understand the cost of them later.

Across his books, connections accumulate: names recur, organisations persist, and signals pass between stories in ways that are not always explained, but rarely accidental. Some readers refer to this as the “Adamsverse,” although the term suggests more stability than is present.

Within those systems, individuals still meet moments of calibration, misalignment, or brief alignment that carry their own charge. Not everything that matters is structural.

Each novel stands alone. None are entirely separate.

Readers can begin anywhere. The system does the rest.

He lives in the UK.