Forgotten Ghosts

It isn’t often Kristin Hughes gets invited for drinks in the middle of the afternoon, but when the man doing the asking is the Deputy Director of the NSA, she makes sure to be on time. A senior leader of The Group that she moonlights for, he has an another off-the-books project headed her way.

It seems some past NSA technicians had kept a prototype search algorithm from the beginning days of the internet on a server in the sub-basements like a technological time capsule. And after decades of silence, the antique software woke up and started sending out alarms. The program captured someone, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, searching the world wide web with the Index Code of an atomic bomb from the 1950s. An atomic bomb that shouldn’t exist. 

As America’s number one nuclear weapons’ technician, this is a job tailor made for Doctor Hughes. Looking for this ghost from the past will lead her into a twilight world of failed military missions, shadowy middlemen, hit squads, and deadly political agendas that she could never have imagined. A job that will end with an all-hands run for the finish, and not a second to spare. If Kristin’s incredibly lucky, she might live through it.