Interference

His colleagues in the New York Police Department thought nothing could scare Frank Carter. Frank thought so too, until one day he had to shoot a man in the line of duty — and found himself confronted by something that had no right to exist in a rational world. The former Marine war hero whose colleagues called him ‘Fearless Frankie’ thought that what he saw could only mean he was falling into dementia. He sank into the depths of despair, contemplating suicide.

Then his lover, wife and partner, Janine Finn, gave him the really bad news: What he saw was not an hallucination. It was real. And suddenly Frank and Janine are drawn into a surreal quest to learn what he saw, what it means, and how — or if — they should try to stop it. For answers they must team with a mysterious AWOL soldier fleeing a pair of trained killers with a twisted sense of humor, who may or may not work for the U.S. government. And they must come face to face with a shocking new view of reality itself. 

Because deep under the Nevada desert, underneath a place called Dreamland, lies a nest of nightmares. One of them has escaped.

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Regarding the multiverse concept: The strange-but-true science behind the concept of multiple universes, quantum computing and the physical phenomenon of interference is best described in the very real book mentioned in the novel: The Fabric of Reality, published in 1997 by the British physicist, Prof. David Deutsch. You can buy it | Here | You can read it online | Here |

Regarding Area 51: The U.S. Air Force operating location at Groom Lake, Nevada is utterly real, and manages to be both secret and famous, which you must admit is a pretty cool trick. I did my best to roll all the myths, memes, tropes, legends and wild speculation together with the historical reality of the place, then layer my own baldfaced lies on top of all that for the sake of the story. There has certainly been more bullshit written about the place than a man can run and jump over, but there has also been some interesting journalism. You might | Start Here | if you’re interested.

Regarding the autistic savants: What those folks can do is so strange and wonderful that I didn’t have to embellish it much for Interference. | Here | is a pretty good lay article on the subject. If you want to dive into this and aren’t scared of some heavy going, | Try This Link |