They Are Listening — Thomas Perry

They Are Listening is a chilling psychological science fiction thriller that asks the question: what if the voices from the stars weren't trying to reach us... but trying to reach through us?When a forgotten shortwave frequency pulses with three tones, two beeps, and a single word, Listening, ham radio operator Thomas Bell is thrust into a nightmare. Alongside Dana Rourke, a government researcher caught in the cover-up, Thomas uncovers a global mystery stretching back millennia: the pyramids of Egypt are not monuments, but conduits. Anchors planted on Earth as part of a signal that is rewriting humanity's very consciousness.As a global bloom consumes the dreamers of the world, merging minds into a collective intelligence, the Awake resistance collapses. The countdown to integration nears zero. The only hope lies deep underground, where Dana and Thomas face the First Listener's cursed chair, and the horrifying truth of the seed planted in humanity long ago.Creeping dread, global paranoia, and cosmic horror collide in a race against time. And when silence finally returns, one question remains:Once you've learned how to listen, can you ever stop?