Eddie

audiobook

Eddie

by Frank Riley

EN·~48 minutes

Chapters

Description

A brilliant electronics engineer lives a quiet life in a trailer by the Pacific, but his world shatters when a sudden explosion rips through his home. The incident is recorded as a simple gas leak, yet the precise timing of a flickering panel, crossed wires, and a split‑second premonition hint at something far more complex. As he staggers from the blast, the authorities are left with a baffling scene that raises more questions than answers.

Enter a cadre of security officials, from a former FBI agent turned defense historian to a high‑ranking Air Force security chief, all drawn into the mystery surrounding the engineer’s research on missile‑guidance technology. Whispers of espionage and counter‑espionage swirl, and the line between friend and foe blurs. Listeners are invited to follow the early investigation, where every clue—technical, personal, and political—pulls the story deeper into a web of secrecy that has remained hidden for decades.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~48 minutes (46K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2019-10-07

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Frank Riley

Frank Riley

1915–1996

Best known for co-writing the Hugo Award-winning novel They'd Rather Be Right, this American science fiction writer also worked as an editor and later became a respected newspaper editor. His career stretched from pulp-era storytelling into mainstream journalism, giving his work an unusual range.

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