The Tularosa Perimeter: A Psychological and Forensic Reconstruction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798247769187)

THE WAR NEVER ENDED. IT JUST MOVED TO 501 LOVERS LANE.

Presented as a forensic reconstruction of a veteran's psychological collapse, The Tularosa Perimeter traces the final days of Alexander Thorne, a retired Combat Engineer who has transformed his suburban New Mexico home into a militarized fortress.

Thorne is not a typical hero. He is a casualty of the "Forever War," a man who sees the world in sectors of fire and choke points. By day, he suffers the indignity of working as a delivery driver for a tyrannical twenty-something manager, treating every pepperoni delivery like a tactical convoy through hostile territory.

By night, he retreats to "The Fortress"-his hardened home in the atomic shadow of the Tularosa Basin-to defend against a threat no one else can see.

Haunted by a "Hum" that sounds like high-tension wires and the scream of cicadas, Thorne becomes convinced that a "glitch" in reality has followed him home from the minefields of Bosnia. He calls him The Redacted Man-a phantom operative with a pixelated face who walks through walls and whispers the one truth Thorne cannot accept: There is no extraction.

As the perimeter between his memories and his reality begins to fracture, Thorne must launch one final mission to the rusted ruins of an Atlas F missile silo to confront the ghost that has been hunting him for twenty years.+1

Is the enemy real? Or is Thorne the engineer of his own siege?