In 1948, an alien starship fell from the New Mexico sky—and immediately vanished behind the walls of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Since that day the US military has endeavored to reverse engineer the ship’s alien technology through top-secret research known only as the Rho Project. Now, sixty years after the crash, the government is prepared tell all. Or so it claims… For there is a second ship, hidden for decades just out of the military’s reach. And when a trio of students discovers it buried deep inside a remote canyon, they are changed forever. With a single touch, the technology the government has spent billions trying to unlock is uploaded into the minds of three teenagers—teenagers who now know the frightening truth about the Rho Project. Together they are thrust into a violent world of secrets and corruption, becoming reluctant soldiers in a war destined to alter what it means to be human.ReviewEnthusiastically recommended reading for Sci-fi fans...and UFO buffs. The Second Ship will leave the reader looking eagerly toward the next installment of this gripping new series. --Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review From the AuthorThe Second Ship is the first novel in my Rho Agenda Trilogy, a coming of age story of an adolescent world in an aging galaxy and of the three young people who become humanity's last-best hope of survival.  The president of the United States announces to the world that Los Alamos National Laboratory's Rho Project has successfully reverse engineered technology from a crashed alien starship, technology that offers such benefits to mankind that he can no longer justify keeping it secret.  As the Rho Project prepares to roll out that technology to the world, three Los Alamos High School juniors stumble upon, or are drawn to, a second crashed starship, buried deep in the rough canyon country surrounding Bandolier National Monument.  With an errant touch, they are linked to an alien computer, enduring a download that gives them the knowledge that the two starships shot each other down and that the Rho Project alien technology threatens mankind's very existence.  Even more frightening, they find themselves altered; changing in ways they can't begin to understand, unsure of what they are becoming. Now, hunted by ruthless killers from their own government, they must find a way to stop the Rho Project before it forever changes what it means to be human. I hope you enjoy reading this trilogy as much as I enjoyed writing it.  In these days when we send our fine young people off to fight our wars, losing that beautiful innocence in violent, alien environments, I wanted to tell a story of three young people thrust into a different, but similarly life changing situation.  Have fun. Richard

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