Nick Cook
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Looking more than a little like a 1950's sci-fi book, the cover to The Hunt for Zero Point does it no favors for its credibility. Nor does the "new journalism" style, with its lurid descriptions of sites, author feelings, meetings, and the mysterious "Marcus" -- an academic of some sort who is never really identified, but who directs Cook's quest through indirection. Nor does the lack of footnotes. However, the bibliography helps somewhat, as does the existence of Nick Cook as a real person who works at "Jane's Weekly," not to mention that he still works there after the publication of this book.
What to make of it then? The student who lent it to me thought something was going on, though who knows what? A quick search with Google turns up a surprising amount of research going on in the field of anti-gravity -- even Boeing right here in Seattle. Some of the stories seem just a little too far fetched. Cook recognizes that information and disinformation are mixed into a very difficult cocktail to take without some hesitation. It helps his credibility that he doesn't swallow it all, but it does put him into a bind -- are his informants helping keep the spin going? Is his book doing the same. The work he did linking Nazi war criminals with US technology developments is credible but by his own admission unproven. Pretty good book actually.
