The Trinity Conspiracy: Part One - Betrayal at Black Mesa

by Jeff Shear

Your name is Jackson Guild. You've slowly fought back from the agony of PTSD, and now you're somewhat sober and a crack investigator on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But you've uncovered something you never wanted to see: The "Eyes Only" notice that there's a nuclear weapon loosed by terrorists on American soil. And it's ticking down toward detonation. Somewhere... That was seven months ago.You didn't find the bomb, and it blew a hole through the heart of America. On Halloween night you got the word that there is a second bomb out there. It's a dirty trick. Finding it will be no treat. You stare into a world of pain. Fortunately, you're not alone. Unfortunately, you still must pay the price. Ask yourself, what's your lonely life worth when millions of others are at stake?

100 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 2014

About the author

Jeff Shear is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom, which was an investigation into a weapons deal between the US and Japan (the FSX), published by Doubleday. He’s been a Fellow at The Center for Public Integrity, in Washington, where he contributed to the book The Buying of the Congress, published by Avon. Before that he served as staff correspondent for National Journal, covering fiscal policy, with regular venues at the White House, Congress and Treasury. His magazine writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and other national publications. He writes TV narrations for the National Geographic Channel, Discovery, and The History Channel. Currently, he's working on the Jackson Guild Books, a hybrid espionage series, about a Senate investigator Jackson Guild, who uncovers a terrorist plot to set off a nuclear weapon in the beating heart of Washington. But there's a twist. If Guild exposes the conspirators, he sets off a nuclear blow-by-blow. That plunges Guild into a lose-lose situation, and he’s got to dance along the razor’s edge between the Truth and its Consequences. When he has the nerve, Shear continues work about an American woman who spied for the British during World War II, which is being (occasionally) serialized on the History News Network, a project of the Ron Rosenzweig Center for History and the New Media at George Mason University.