Aggressor (ePub)

book-writing career, ghost-writing a number of Sunday Times bestsellers whilst simultaneously delivering a series of exclusives for Jane's, several of which - a second, secret hostage rescue mission in Iran and first-ever pictures of the near-mythical Soviet 'Caspian Sea Monster' - made headline news around the world. In 2001, Cook's first non-fiction title, The Hunt For Zero Point, was published, reaching number 3 in the Amazon General List and Number 1 in Amazon's Non-Fiction charts. THFZP was the culmination of a decade's investigation into a heretical notion - the idea that anti-gravity technology could have been buried under decades of secret development work - and allowed Nick to give readers, via a mass-market publication, a behind-the-scenes tour of the world of classified military development - a world that he had got to know well via his research and writing for Jane's. THFZP also introduced readers to the all-too-real and mercurial war criminal, Hans Kammler, an SS general, long forgotten by history, who developed the Nazis' most secret weapons technology and who disappeared off the face of the earth at the end of the war. After writing, hosting and producing two documentaries about the classified world of aerospace and defence -Billion Dollar Secret and An Alien History of Planet Earth, for the Discovery/C5 and History/C4 channels respectively - Nick continued to work for Jane's as its Senior Aerospace Consultant and penned a number of other top-selling ghost-written works. In 2008, he used his knowledge of the global aerospace and defence industry's science and technology base to set up Dynamixx, a consultancy dedicated to the formulation and implementation of strategies that transition A&D industry technologies to global challenges 'beyond defence' - starting with clean energy and the environment, but extending into natural disaster prevention and response and humanitarian relief. He is currently working with A&D companies, governments, banks, clean-tech organizations and venture capitalists to roll out plans that see A&D industry technology transitioned to these markets, providing technical solutions to challenges that are urgent but currently insoluble. He lives and works with his wife and two children in London.