the Darter: “The hardest part wasn’t getting it off ground. was keeping invisible from people who’d kill for it.

Ray Calder is a forty-four-year-old mechanic from Roanoke, Virginia - bad knees, empty garage, nothing much left to prove. He's been building an electric car chassis for two years, mostly just to have something to do with his evenings.Then a wiring mistake changes everything.What Ray discovers in his garage that Tuesday night - quietly, methodically, alone - is something that powerful people have been searching for a very long time. He doesn't fully understand it yet. But he understands enough to know that telling the wrong person too soon would be the last decision he ever got to make for himself.So he gets back to work.The Darter is a thriller about a man with no credentials, no institution, and no intention of giving up the most important thing he's ever built. Ray Calder didn't set out to change the world. He set out to build something in his garage.The world is going to have a problem with that.