The Series

Republishing 2026

In 1997, a nineteen-year-old Toronto hacker named Steven Mitchell is conscripted by the United Nations into a project in a Norwegian fjord. The fjord is older than he is. Older than his country. Older than the Ice Age. What is buried in the rock is a structure built by a civilisation that vanished hundreds of thousands of years ago — and the machine inside it still works.

It scans him. It decides. What it decides is worse than anything the people running the operation are prepared to hear.

Denial Protocol: The Facility is a first-contact story in reverse. The contact has already happened. Somebody just has to be worthy of it.

In Final Draft

Twenty years after the Facility closed around him, Steven Mitchell runs a Geneva company designed for exactly one purpose: to notice the people still looking for him. Somebody always is. A plane goes down over the English Channel. A priest disappears in Manila. And in a place nobody has yet found, seven immortals have just agreed that humanity has run its course.

Denial Protocol: Unnatural Selection is the book in which the reader learns what the Stations are for, what the Echelon has been preparing, and why the oldest civilian survivor on Earth has been pretending to be a beggar in Manila for the last forty years.