September 2001 saw the UK publication of Nick Cook’s The Hunt For Zero Point, a book that has gone on to become a cult classic on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the subject of often frenzied speculation on the web.

Upon its US publication in September 2002, The Hunt topped the Amazon.com non-fiction charts and rose to number three on Amazon’s general list. The book details Nick Cook’s ten-year journey (whilst Aviation Editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly) in pursuit of a taboo science - anti-gravity technology - but has since become a rallying cry for those who believe that science and history, as they have been handed down to us, aren’t always the simple, neat and convenient ‘truths’ that many text books would have us believe ...

Critical Praise for the book:

“An extraordinary investigation into aviation’s greatest mystery” – Mail on Sunday, London

“Cook relates his investigations in splendid cloak-and-dagger style with low-lit X-Files scenes of secret meetings and nervous witnesses” – Guardian, London

If you haven’t read The Hunt For Zero Point, you can check out the US version on www.amazon.com or the UK version on www.amazon.co.uk. There are small variations between both books. The US version, published by Broadway Books, for example, features an index; the UK version does not.

What Amazon readers say:

“I dare you to read the book and then go to your browser and start looking up names or places or ideas. There is a wealth of knowledge there that is way outside the box” – Douglas De Bono, Author

“You really need to read the book if you are interested in new technology, old technology, the evolution of technology or want to understand where our society may have received many abstract ideas for high-tech” – M. Kuffler, Hartford, CT, USA

“As a retired military and airline pilot, I became so engrossed in the book that I read it in one night” – Robert Olson, Vacaville, CA, USA

“When I first came across Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt For Zero Point’ in a bookstore, I scoffed at the sub-title: ‘Inside the classified world of antigravity technology’. As an aerospace engineer, historian and dyed-in-the-wool skeptic, I figured it was probably full of mystical, pseudo-scientific nonsense that would appeal only to those with absolutely no understanding of how the world works … Then, later, I checked a copy of ‘The Hunt For Zero Point’ out of the library and read it. My opinion is now completely different. I highly recommend it if you are interested in learning about an obscure, previously unknown aspect of history that, if true, has major implications for the future of nearly every high technology enterprise on Earth” – Terry Sunday, El Paso, TX, USA

Since 2002, The Hunt has gone on to be published in Russian and German and other language editions are currently in negotiation. High Frontiers has also been approached by around 25 TV and film production companies for the movie and television rights to the book. High Frontiers is currently in contract discussions with an LA-based production company that is planning a bold and exciting vision for recounting The Hunt For Zero Point’s dramatic story on-screen. We will report on this development further.

Nick Cook is available to deliver multi-media presentations on The Hunt For Zero Point. His audiences to date have included schools, scientific forums and aerospace companies. To discuss a booking, please contact us here.

The book has also inspired works within a major new artform, the extraordinary ‘codagraphs’ of artist and screenwriter Simon Eden as well as music. A track on the album ‘Eye Of The Storm’ by Sonic-Hub entitled ‘The Hunt For Zero Point’, featuring Kim Wilde, is set for release as a single. It is available for download on iTunes and TuneTribe.com

Other High Frontiers Media activities:

• Nick Cook remains Aerospace Consultant to Jane’s Defence Weekly and is currently in charge of the magazine’s ‘Technology Audit’ series - benchmarking the science and technology of the world’s major aerospace and defence companies. To date, ‘Tech Audit’, which was conceived and developed by Cook, has profiled the S&T activities of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Thales and BAE Systems. Others are currently in the pipeline. Please click here to visit Jane’s Information Group. Cook also writes regularly on aerospace matters for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal

• In October 2005, the UK’s Channel 4 screened a two-hour documentary, written and presented by Nick Cook called ‘UFOs: The Secret Evidence’ (also shown on the History Channel as ‘An Alien History of Planet Earth). Despite the title, ‘Secret Evidence’ was actually a dissertation on ‘conventional’ explanations for UFOs, including top secret aerospace technology. The programme also left the door ajar to other, ‘exotic’ explanations for UFO sightings. This mix of mystery and hard-science proved a critical and popular hit for C4 and other documentaries written and presented by Cook are currently under discussion.

• Nick Cook’s previous documentary, Billion Dollar Secret, filmed by veteran award-winning director Mike Grigsby and first shown on The Discovery/Learning Channel in 1999, relates Cook’s journey, from London to the desert states of America in pursuit of US black projects - defence programmes so secret that officially they don’t exist. The film, released in 2004 as a DVD through Prime DVD, provides a window on a world rarely seen and takes the viewer behind the scenes at the Pentagon and the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, as well as to the boundary of Area 51 in Nevada, where high-tech reality and UFO mythology collide.

• As well as a published author of his own titles (including the novels ‘Angel, Archangel’ and ‘Aggressor’), Nick Cook has ghost-written a number of other books, including the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling ‘Sabre Squadron’ about the SAS in Iraq in 1991 and ‘No Escape Zone’ about a downed Royal Navy pilot’s daring escape from war-torn Bosnia in 1994. October 2006 saw the publication of ‘Barefoot Soldier’, the autobiography of Johnson Beharry VC, of which Cook is co-author. The book is published by Little, Brown and was a major autumn title. Sir Max Hastings, in his review for the Sunday Times, described ‘Barefoot Soldier’ as “a remarkably good....vivid picture of a young man's odyssey from a shack life on the little Caribbean island of Grenada, to the fierce heat of Bush and Blair’s war in Iraq.”
  

• A sequel to The Hunt For Zero Point is currently at the advanced planning stage

• Aerospace and defence industry corporate profiles - see High Frontiers Publishing

Nick Cook is represented by agent Mark Lucas of Lucas, Alexander, Whitley or contact Frances Grosvenor here.