The Breach

The Breach by Patrick Lee combines military adventure and science fiction.

Travis Chase is trying to lose himself in Alaska. He was a cop who when to prison and is now trying to figure out the rest of his life. On a hike in the middle of nowhere, designed not to cross paths with anyone, he stumbles across the unbelievable.

The second morning after a fierce thunderstorm, Chase wakes up on the edge of a deep canyon ready to make coffee and enjoy the quiet. When he looks down the hill he see a crashed 747. At first he doesn't believe his eyes - how can a 747 crash without a team of small planes and helicopters searching for the crash site?

Fifteen minutes later, he has packed and raced down the side of the mountain. The plane is mostly intact; it lost one wing and has a couple of splits in the fuselage. When he enters one he sees that it is not a regular passenger plane and everyone on board has been shot.

Following the trail leading away from the plane, following a note left by someone on the plane who died slowly enough to leave it, Chase must find the people who murdered the team on the plane, rescue or kill the hostages, and call someone with the codename Tangent.

Lee has created a plausible scenario where an Ion Collider has opened a rip, or breach, to another place. Through that breach pass technologies far in advance of current Earth society. Tangent has been created to study the things that come through, put some into use and protect others from falling into the wrong hands. Travis Chase will unwillingly become a part of the current Tangent project and it may mean the end of his life.

Lee, Patrick. (2010). The Breach. New York: Harper.