Influx

Jon Grady is a physicist whose team has built a device that reflects gravity, a result that should rewrite the field. Within a night, armed agents of the Bureau of Technology Control (BTC) shut down his lab. The BTC is a covert organization that can seize any discovery it deems too disruptive for public release.

The Bureau holds that fusion power, genetic enhancement and true artificial intelligence were all achieved decades ago, then buried on purpose. Its aim is to keep sudden progress from destabilizing society. Grady is offered a place among its ranks.

He refuses to surrender his work or join them. For that, he is sent to a hidden, high-tech prison built for scientists and inventors who turned the Bureau down before him.

From there the book is a science-fiction thriller with a fast, action-driven pace, built on real-world physics. Grady and the other prisoners plan an escape from the facility. If they get out, they intend to show the world what the BTC has kept hidden for decades.