Four Campers Experience the Unimaginable...
A Signal From Deep Space is Detected...
NASA and SETI Scramble for Answers...
But What They Discover is...Terrifying.

When four campers decide to take a short vacation in the pine forests of Mount Shasta, a potentially active volcano, in the Cascade Mountain Range of Northern California, it turns out they aren't alone...

After a long drive through the Shasta Trinity National Forest, British M.I.T graduate, Tom Bishop, and his three friends, set up camp in the closed-for-season, Pine Crags Wilderness Campsite, in the shadows of Mount Shasta. As they exchange legends about the mysterious mountain, something appears from the woods which defies all logic...

Meanwhile SETI scientist and exo-solar planet hunter, Dr Lucy Davies is monitoring the array of computer screens in front of her carrying out a routing E.T signal sweep when she almosts drops her mug of coffee in response to one of the screens, which starts flashing - indicating a confirmed detection of a signal from space....Upon closer annalysis however the signal is even more intriguing. It does emanate from space, but terminates at a remote location in the Cascade Mountain Range of the western USA - an area known as Cobalt Ridge.

Meanwhile, as NASA and SETI scientists scramble to determine if the signal is a genuine fist contact from an alien species, Tom and his friends are frantically searching for two of their team, missing since the campsite inccident. As they uncover more clues, their search leads them down a remote series of old mining tunnels towards the base of Mount Shasta. What they eventually discover there however stuns the scientific community. But, are the space signals genuine? A geographical anomaly? Genuine contact from an aliens...or something even more sinister...? 

Salient is a fast paced, unputdownable science fiction action thriller which will have you turning the pages until the very end as you are taken on an edge-of-your-seat mystery ride

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