July 1947. Roswell. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal stands over a steel table and realizes humanity is not alone-and not in control. He builds a wall of secrecy to protect the world from a truth it isn't ready to hear. Two years later, he falls from a hospital window. Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was there when they opened the door. He saw what Forrestal saw.

And he spent the next sixteen years climbing toward the one chair with the clearance to tear the wall down. By November 1963, President Kennedy is ready to tell the world everything. The men who built the wall have other plans. KENNEDY: Shadow Clearance is a speculative thriller that reframes the assassination as the final act of a shadow war-between a president who wanted disclosure and an apparatus that would kill to keep the secret buried.