{"product_id":"nova-and-rook-the-ghost-element","title":"Nova and Rook: The Ghost Element","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-section-id=\"v7tptv\" data-start=\"6064\" data-end=\"6092\"\u003eA Ground Truth Adventure\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6094\" data-end=\"6170\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"6094\" data-end=\"6170\"\u003eA material that should not exist. A discovery the world may not survive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6172\" data-end=\"6331\"\u003eWhen Nova Vale and Rook Mercer travel to the remote Kharad Plateau, they expect to examine a disputed rare-earth sample with unusual electromagnetic behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6333\" data-end=\"6378\"\u003eInstead, they discover the \u003cstrong data-start=\"6360\" data-end=\"6377\"\u003eGhost Element\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6380\" data-end=\"6666\"\u003eIt is not truly an element. It is an extraordinary structure formed from several materials, precisely arranged vacancies and repeating channels capable of redirecting energy. Under controlled conditions, it can make an object harder to detect by radar, heat, sound and magnetic sensors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6668\" data-end=\"6773\"\u003eIts possible civilian uses could transform medical imaging, energy systems, transport and communications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6775\" data-end=\"6835\"\u003eIts military potential could transform the balance of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"6837\" data-end=\"7183\"\u003eVantrel Aerospace has already used fragments of the material in \u003cstrong data-start=\"6901\" data-end=\"6911\"\u003eWraith\u003c\/strong\u003e, an experimental unmanned aircraft designed to reduce several detectable signatures at once. Governments arrive. Rival research teams close in. Classified convoys cross the plateau, while every organisation insists that its interest is defensive, scientific or necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"7185\" data-end=\"7509\"\u003eBut Nova notices that the project maps exclude the people living beside the discovery. Springs are changing. Drilling reaches places local records say should remain untouched. The town of Narin has been promised jobs, roads and investment, yet the people carrying the environmental risk have the least control over the data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"7511\" data-end=\"7781\"\u003eRook discovers something even more unsettling. The Ghost Element is not simply ore waiting to be mined. The working fragments may have been cut from a much larger engineered structure hidden beneath the mountains—an ancient system whose purpose nobody fully understands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"7783\" data-end=\"8077\"\u003eWhen material disappears, unauthorised tests begin and the Wraith aircraft becomes dangerously difficult to track, Nova and Rook are pulled into a race involving sabotage, strategic secrecy, failing water systems and a technology that can vanish from the very instruments meant to keep it safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"8079\" data-end=\"8230\"\u003eTo prevent catastrophe, they must decide what knowledge should be published, what must remain restricted and who has the authority to make that choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"8232\" data-end=\"8334\"\u003eBecause the real question is not whether humanity can build the next generation of stealth technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"8336\" data-end=\"8368\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"8336\" data-end=\"8368\"\u003eIt is whether anyone should.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"8370\" data-end=\"8571\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"8370\" data-end=\"8389\"\u003eThe Ghost Element\u003c\/em\u003e is a high-stakes science adventure for readers aged \u003cstrong data-start=\"8442\" data-end=\"8451\"\u003e12–16\u003c\/strong\u003e, blending geology, materials science, archaeology, aerospace technology, environmental risk and international suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"8573\" data-end=\"8768\"\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy futuristic aircraft, secret research programmes, ancient technology, mountain expeditions and morally complex mysteries where every side possesses part of the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"8770\" data-end=\"9068\"\u003eThe novel establishes that the “Ghost Element” is a multi-material structure rather than a single atom, while the Wraith programme attempts to use working fragments from a larger buried system it does not fully understand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"9070\" data-end=\"9439\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9070\" data-end=\"9081\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eric Henry\u003cbr data-start=\"9092\" data-end=\"9095\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9095\" data-end=\"9106\"\u003eSeries:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"9107\" data-end=\"9145\"\u003eNova \u0026amp; Rook: Ground Truth Adventures\u003c\/em\u003e — Book Four\u003cbr data-start=\"9157\" data-end=\"9160\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9160\" data-end=\"9188\"\u003eRecommended reading age:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12–16 years\u003cbr data-start=\"9200\" data-end=\"9203\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9203\" data-end=\"9214\"\u003eLength:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380 pages\u003cbr data-start=\"9224\" data-end=\"9227\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9227\" data-end=\"9236\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1-0668783-8-3\u003cbr data-start=\"9254\" data-end=\"9257\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9257\" data-end=\"9271\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Questbound Studios Limited\u003cbr data-start=\"9298\" data-end=\"9301\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9301\" data-end=\"9314\"\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e Illustrated novel with black-and-white maps, scientific diagrams and technical plates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Questbound Studios Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67592162574640,"sku":"9781066878383","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/nova-and-rook-the-ghost-element","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}