Geodysseus

When an old rock hound stumbles across what appears to be the wreckage of a mysterious capsule or cargo pod in Death Valley at the height of the Cold War, a dozen government agencies scramble to unravel its secrets. Is it from a Soviet spy operation or another bungled domestic test like the Roswell fiasco? Frank Sartori, an Atomic Energy Commission physicist, sets out to find out for himself. Guided by map coordinates found on a small metallic disk extracted from the pod, Sartori and an Army Cor