UMO - A Prequel Novella To Skywave & A Chilling Tale Of First Contact

When three probes sent to Mars suffer suspicious catastrophic failures, a clandestine manned mission is dispatched to investigate the probes' wreckage for clues to explain their demise.

A skeleton crew of three, led by Lt. Col Avery Lockett, embarks on the mission aboard the spaceship Cetus Prime knowing full well the danger awaiting them. 

UMOs, or unidentified magnetic objects.

Disavowed for decades by space officials as nothing more than harmless, amoeba-like blobs of electromagnetic energy, UMOs are far more lethal than they appear. For if they sense a threat, they swarm and attack. 

And Cetus Prime is ill-equipped to fend them off and too slow to escape.

UMO, a novella, is the prequel to Skywave, book 1 of the Rorschach Explorer Missions, a new 3 book sci-fi thriller series (all available now) from mystery-thriller author K. Patrick Donoghue. 

The prologue from Skywave is also included as a free bonus chapter in UMO and to link it seamlessly with the trilogy.

K. Patrick Donoghue is the author of two series; The Anlon Cully Chronicles, an archaeology-based mystery-thriller series, and The Rorschach Explorer Missions, a new sci-fi thriller series. The Authors inspiration for The Anlon Cully Chronicles is rooted in his long-standing interest in ancient civilizations. In particular, a series of still-unexplained archaeological discoveries that suggest at least one advanced society thrived on Earth long before consensus views. In similar fashion, Patrick takes a contrarian/alternative view toward deep space exploration, the existence of extraterrestrial life and ancient aliens in The Rorschach Explorer Missions. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife and two sons.