The Hidden City

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Long-protected conspiracies are threatened when two strangers converge at the most secret place on Earth: The Hidden City...

Jordan Prichard may very well be "the best damn African-American investigative journalist The Washington Post ever had," but at this particular moment in his career he is its fallen angel.

Fifty-eight-years-old, forced out of the most coveted job in all of print journalism and blacklisted out of hard news altogether for allegedly fabricating a story, Jordan finds he's dangerously overqualified for anything else and forced by health care reality to take the only offer open to him; namely, a 'tryout' with The National Reporter.

A borderline tabloid publication of enormous financial resources, The Reporter has unwittingly placed a world-weary yet instinctively tenacious Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist on the path to perhaps the greatest news story of all time.

But will anyone believe him?

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Meanwhile, Dr. Cassandra Landis, PhD in nonlinear advanced applied physics and CEO and Chairperson of one of the largest aeronautics firms in the world is also like any normal working mother: saying goodbye to her husband in the morning; kissing her eight-year-old son goodbye when she drops him off at school.

So when she is approached about a short, top-secret aerospace engineering consulting job for the government, she thinks it will be a release from the tedium of the everyday; a mental adventure for her, though one that would still have her home by dinnertime.

Criss-cross lies account nicely for the large blocks of missing time: to her family, she pretends to go to work at the company she inherited from her late father, a company called LandisAir; to her secretary and her colleagues, she is away on prospecting meetings with the government, trying to secure yet another aeronautic project.

Instead, Cass heads to a secret air terminal, rides a 737 with its windows blacked out and boards a bus with similar blacked-out windows, all to work on the most amazing thing she's ever been a part of that she could tell no one about; not her colleagues on the board of LandisAir, her fellow 'commuters,' or even her family.

At first, Cass thought holding such top secret knowledge meant immense power.

But Cass would soon find that such secret knowledge would start to corrode her soul; that like everything else, freedom has its price...

...and adventure could so easily trip into danger...
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What unbelievable story are Jordan and Cass working on from different angles?

The answer lies within The Hidden City...