The Presidents Briefing: Full Disclosure Series

THE PRESIDENT'S BRIEFING A Full Disclosure Series Novel Every president receives classified briefings. One of them is never supposed to become public. Three days after unexpectedly assuming the presidency, Jonathan Mercer is awakened in the middle of the night and escorted beneath the White House to a room that officially does not exist. No national security adviser accompanies him. No recording is made. And the people waiting inside do not answer to any department he recognizes. What they show him begins in the final days of World War II: recovered technology of unknown origin, decades of secret communication, and evidence that the United States has participated in an arrangement far older and more dangerous than any elected administration. In 1947, a group calling itself the Human Continuity Delegation entered into the Intermediary Accord-an agreement establishing a secret relationship between humanity and a nonhuman intelligence. Every president since Truman has inherited its restrictions. None has been permitted to truly control it. And now the agreement is about to expire. Meanwhile, investigative reporter Rachel Cole begins following the final clues left behind by a frightened former White House communications officer. What starts as a search for a mysterious presidential briefing leads her through missing archives, hidden appropriations, classified recoveries, disturbing biological provisions, and an organization that has spent generations deciding what presidents-and the public-are allowed to know. As Rachel moves closer to the truth and President Mercer begins questioning the authority behind the agreement, both discover the same terrifying possibility: The greatest secret in modern history may not be that humanity made contact. It may be who was allowed to speak for us when it happened. And in six months, they may lose that privilege forever. The President's Briefing is a tense political conspiracy thriller about secrecy, first contact, government power, and the moment when humanity finally learns that disclosure is no longer a choice.