The Thermopylae Protocol

NEW NOVEL IN THE BEST-SELLING GORDIAN DIVISION SERIES FROM NYT BEST-SELLING AUTHORDAVID WEBER AND JACOB HOLO: When a ship from an uncharted universe explodes, it soon becomesapparent that someone is building a massive weapon away from the watchful eyes of the Gordian Division.Agent Cho and Detective Cantrell are deployed to get to the bottom of the mystery. If they don’t it, meansdestruction on a universal scale.A Time Storm is Brewing.After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysisof the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division’s top agent, andhis crew on the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship had been transported to an uncharteduniverse, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship’s industrial machines whileeveryone else experienced only a few short days. Raibert is certain a powerful weapon of some nature hasbeen built out in the unexplored reaches of the multiverse, but where and by whom remains unknown.The search is on, and the Gordian Division musters its fleet of time machines at Providence, a massivetransdimensional station under construction. They call upon their allies from the militaristic Admin for aid in theirsearch—but before plans can be formalized, the leader of the Admin’s Department of Temporal Investigationis murdered while visiting Providence, and the joint operation is thrown into chaos.Accusations fly and tensions mount between the two organizations. Detectives Isaac Cho and SusanCantrell—both fast becoming experts in transdimensional crime—are dispatched to Providence. But the clockis ticking for the detectives and Raibert’s crew. A vast, powerful conspiracy has shuddered into motion, and thetwo teams may be all that stand between it and destruction on a universal scale.