title: Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations: The Secret Space Program, Celestial Psyops and  Hidden Conflicts
author:  Joseph P. Farrell 
description: Joseph Farrell is an Oxford educated historian who specializes in alternative history, World War II and secret technologies. Raised in Kansas, he has had a wide range of jobs and is currently a full-time author and researcher. His many books include: The Giza Death Star Trilogy; Reich of the Black Sun; The SS Brotherhood of the Bell; Nazi International; Roswell and Reich; The Cosmic War; Grid of the Gods; Babylon's Banksters; and others.
zlib_text: IT'S FIRST CONTACT… POLITY STYLE!
  
  The Polity Collective is the pinnacle of space-faring civilization. Academic
  and insightful, its dominion stretches from Earth Central into the
  unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. But when the Polity finally
  encounters alien life in the form of massive, hostile, crablike carnivores
  known as the Prador, there can be only one outcome… total warfare.
  
  Chaos reigns as the Polity, caught unawares, struggles to regain its foothold
  and transition itself into a military society. Starships clash, planets fall,
  and space stations are overrun, but for Jebel Krong and Moria Salem, two
  unlikely heroes trapped at the center of the action, this war is far more than
  a mere clash of cultures, far more than technology versus brute force… this
  war is personal.
  
  Epic in scope, unrelenting in action, _**Prador Moon**_ delivers the
  blistering battles and astounding literary pyrotechnics that fans of Neal
  Asher, author of _**Gridlinked, The Line of Polity,**_ and **T