The Fold

Mike Erikson lives in a small New England town, where his neighbours see an ordinary man. He likes it that way. His gifts would make almost any challenge easy, but he has chosen a quiet, peaceful life and is content with it.

Then an old friend brings him a mystery he is uniquely qualified to solve. In the California desert, DARPA scientists have built a device they fondly call the Albuquerque Door.

The Door uses a cryptic computer equation and magnetic fields to fold dimensions. Distance shrinks, so one step carries a traveler hundreds of feet. The team promises teleportation is finally real and insists that passing through is completely safe.

Mike is not convinced. Evidence keeps piling up that the machine is not what it appears to be, and that the people who made it are keeping a dangerous secret. The book is a science-fiction thriller built around an investigation, with a puzzle at its centre.

The deeper Mike digs, the more he suspects that only one explanation fits the facts. If he is right, the project could destroy everything, and he may not have long to prove it.