The Lure - Softcover

In a top-secret research facility, a team of scientists receive an unexpected message from the depths of space.
 
At first, the blizzard of sub-nuclear particles seemed random. But soon a pattern emerges that could only have come from an alien intelligence far more advanced than our own. Now it's up to Irish mathematician Tom Petrie to decode these messages and unlock their secret--one that is believed to contain an unimaginable technological breakthrough, and has the power to change the course of human history...unless the world's superpowers succeed in suppressing the truth. Can Petrie and his team unmask the message's true intent while evading those who aim to crush its extraordinary revelations? A desperate race against time--and through space--is about to begin....
 
The Lure
 
Praise for Bill Napier's SPLINTERED ICON
 
"Incredible...extraordinary."--Jeff Long
"Fans of Dan Brown take note."--Jack Du Brul
"Deftly mixing history, science, and fiction, Napier keeps the action escalating..."--Publishers Weekly 

Professor Bill Napier is an astronomer at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland and an honorary professor at the Institute for Astrobiology of Cardiff University. He is interested in the relationship between life and the Universe and is a leading authority on the celestial hazard issue. He has co-authored three scientific books and about eighty research papers, and has written two previous thrillers.