SEARCH

By Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens

“Smart, suspenseful writing and a clever concept add up to a compelling read.”—Publishers Weekly

“Nicely developed characters, a tantalizing ancient mystery with potentially devastating contemporary ramifications, and a conclusion that mixes pyrotechnics with jaw-dropping revelations about the history of humankind.”—Booklist

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Icefire and Freefall comes an electrifyingly new contemporary mainstream thriller – SEARCH (Thomas Dunne Books; August 3, 2010).  Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, also known for co-authoring bestselling Star Trek novels with William Shatner, delve into a world of startling speculation in which genetic mutations collide with secret and controversial evidence of unknown human history.

David Weir is a young geneticist working for the United States military whose life is forever altered when he makes a shocking discovery: nonhuman DNA sequences in seemingly unrelated people scattered throughout the world – and he’s one of them.  Even more unsettling, no one with this anomaly has lived past 27, and David is 26. 

With time running out and desperate to find evidence of others like him who have survived, David turns to Holden Stennis Ironwood, a colorful billionaire obsessed by his belief that the government is suppressing evidence of  aliens who lived on earth thousands of years ago and were responsible for the birth of human civilization.  Now backed by Ironwood’s limitless – and illegal – resources, David works frantically to locate geographic clusters of people who share his genetic anomaly, as Ironwood uses David’s discoveries to send his teams to what he believes will be long-lost alien outposts holding the explosive evidence he seeks.

But David and Ironwood are not the only ones searching for those outposts and that evidence.

For thousands of years, Jessica MacClary’s family members have been defenders of a faith that dates back to a time before written history, when, they believe, the “First Gods” walked among us, then left, promising to return.  The Family believes Ironwood’s alien outposts could be the forgotten temples of the First Gods, holding the legendary gifts that will reveal the secret of their departure, and return. 

Now it is Jess’s turn to step up and take her place in the unbroken line of Defenders, vowing to pledge her life to protect the First Gods’ legacy and prepare for their return.  But as she claims her destiny, Jess makes discoveries of her own – discoveries that will throw her into David’s and Ironwood’s path and open the door into a new and even more staggering revelation about the Family’s true beginnings and the First Gods’ role at the dawn of human history.

The separate lives of David and Jessica and Ironwood collide as they all embark on a quest that will take them around the world and into the heart of the forbidden history of generations past on their life-and-death quest to find the truth of human origins.  SEARCH is an adrenaline-fueled thriller where science, religion, past truths and present beliefs all come together in a plot as intricate and unpredictable as the histories it chronicles.

In the world of Star Trek, JUDITH and GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS are among the franchise’s biggest selling book writers.  On their own, they are New York Times bestselling novelists and noted television writers who divide their time between Los Angeles, California and Vancouver Island.

More Praise for the Works of Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens:

"Icefire is the best suspense novel of its type since The Hunt for Red October."

—Stephen King

"If you're waiting on the edge of your seat for the next Tom Clancy techno-thriller, then pick up Icefire and hang on."

—The Denver Post

"Required reading...an out-of-this-world thriller sure to quicken the heartbeat."

—The New York Post on Freefall

"This followup of the Reeves-Stevenses bestselling Icefire insures their entree to the techno-thriller elite."

—Publishers Weekly on Quicksilver