Vortex

Author’s Note

The Safe Interceptor, Project Placebo, and Bunker 17 are products of my imagination. The Philadelphia Experiment, though, has been arguably documented in the superb investigative study by William Moore and Charles Berlitz, which provided the impetus for this novel.[1]

Einstein’s Unified Field Theory, meanwhile, remains a baffling and controversial concept. My special thanks to scientist Emery Pineo for making sense of it for me and theorizing on ways it might be employed to create the ultimate weapon. Thanks also go to Scott Siegel, scientist John Signore, and Dr. Morty Korn, whose brilliant career as a cardiologist is rivaled only by his expertise as a critic of my early drafts.

The principles and effects of the Vortex fields lie not only within the realm of credibility, but also within the reach of contemporary technology. Sometimes fiction seeks to imitate truth. Sometimes they are very much the same thing.