The release date for the English version of 'Diablo Mesa' by
Douglas Preston is Feb 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson are entrusted with solving the inexplicable deaths of two persons discovered at a place where a UFO is said to have landed decades before. This is based on the New York Times best-selling books Preston and Child.
The creator of Icarus Space Systems and a rich and eccentric millionaire, Lucas Tappan, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with a crazy idea: to fund a meticulous, scientific investigation of the location of the reported 1947 UFO crash. To her considerable dismay, the position is assigned to a dubious Nora Kelly.
Upon starting Nora's dig, she finds two murder victims buried there with their hands and faces completely destroyed by acid to conceal their identities. The case is within the purview of Special Agent Corrie Swanson. Corrie's homicide investigation opens a Pandora's box of violence and espionage as Nora's excavation uncovers strange and seemingly inexplicable things. Bloody evidence of a powerful force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets—and that threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate—is discovered.