Deadly Artifact by Daniel J. Koch

Deadly Artifact by Daniel J. Koch
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
The story follows a U.S. government meteorologist named Jack Davis, whose life is dismantled by shadowy government agents after he uses scientific instruments to document a massive UFO over Phoenix, Arizona.
Recruited by billionaire Bob Sinclair into an elite research team, Jack joins a multi-disciplinary investigation into anomalous phenomena that leads them all over the world on a mission of discovery.
This eventually leads the team to the site of an alleged 1974 crash in Coyame, Mexico.
There, they unearth a double-edged nightmare decades in the making—one that was never meant to be found, and cannot safely be left alone. When a local cartel inadvertently triggers a catastrophic chain of events, the team must perform a desperate moral calculus, authorizing an unthinkable act on foreign soil to prevent a threat that could extinguish life on a global scale.
Though they successfully contain the threat and recover revolutionary alien artifacts, the survivors are left navigating a geopolitical firestorm, under active threat from both government black ops and a vengeful criminal organization.

