The Black Ghost of Normandy: Undetermined Origin

Jonathan Reyes kept the deal. He took the quiet job, kept the truth in the dark, and told himself the chase was over. Then a coded ripple in a legacy account, sent by the one other person alive who knows what he knows, warns him the impossible is happening again, and that the machine which spent eighty years erasing the Black Ghost of Normandy is now, at last, preparing to retire him for good. Because the Ghost is real, and the Ghost is running out of time. Across a black-market valley of drones he can't outwait and a twenty-seven-day crossing that nearly uses him up, he is being spent to the bottom, and when a naive local reporter films two seconds of a faceless shape dissolving into the dark and names him on the evening news, the secret a country buried since 1944 finally, catastrophically, breaks. Now a disgraced journalist and an exiled intelligence officer, two people who were never supposed to meet, race a machine that turns entire cities over without leaving a fingerprint, chasing a man who cannot be photographed, cannot be aged, and cannot be proven, toward a truth no witness in eighty years ever lived to understand: what a war does to a man it decides can never be allowed to stop. The Black Ghost of Normandy: Part Two , Undetermined Origin is a literary thriller about erasure, endurance, and the unbearable cost of being made too useful to die, and about the one kind of truth a machine can never take: the kind kept, in the dark, by people who refuse to let it be nothing.