Handpicked by the NSA to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the recent crash of a weather balloon, Robert Bellamy searches for clues in Rome, Budapest, and Texas.
Commander Bellamy, ordered to operate alone without his usual naval intelligence contacts, follows an elusive trail from a tour bus driver in Kappel to a mechanic in Bern.
Equipped with forged credentials and urgent orders from Fort Meade, he soon discovers that the Swiss mountain wreckage was no ordinary military accident. Every name he uncovers draws him deeper into an international web of silence where a single slip means instant death.
The late novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon remains one of the world's top bestselling authors, having sold more than 300 million copies of his books. Are You Afraid of the Dark? is his most recent in a long line of huge bestsellers. He is also the only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar. The Guinness Book of World Records heralds him as the most translated author in the world.