The Fifth Pilot

"...and if we go to war with a religious enemy, what better way to drive home the point that God is on our side." These are the cryptic words uttered by a man known only as The Engineer. A man who exhibits the traits of gravitational lensing, a man that floats on the edge of reality, a man who may or may not be a living black hole. Out in the wastelands of the Nevada desert two men meet for the first and last time. One man is hunting for the truth; the other is being hunted by it. Remote military bases, biblical imagery, X-Plane technology, ghosts in the desert, and lost silent films find their home in this tale of conspiracy and paranoia. Agent 47 is on the threshold of unraveling the greatest cover-up in aerospace history, one that has remained top secret for half a century. Will he find what he's looking for or will truth really be stranger than fiction? The desert holds many secrets and lurking in the skies above is the identity of a mysterious entity known only as The Fifth Pilot.

Vincent T Ciaramella lives in Pittsburgh and is currently working on his second book.