The world changed after Roswell.

To protect Earth from the Messenger's warning, America and the Soviets formed UNSOC, an uneasy alliance to guard against the alien threat the world still waits for. Some say it was all a hoax.

Now, with the solar system on the verge of privatization, UNSOC Inspector Vladimir Marlowe is pulled into a forgotten murder-suicide spanning the dark underbelly of known space. But between his crumbling marriage, far-right conspiracists, and the whispers of a forgotten truth in his grandfather's forbidden diary, Marlowe stumbles into a far deeper mystery?one that could unravel decades of state secrets.

The world stopped believing. What's coming doesn't care.