Some inventions change the world. Some records explain why they had to.
Long before Caroline Friday uncovered the secrets of the Gold Box, before Hank Raglan disappeared into the mystery surrounding it, and before the events of Call of the Minotaur carried humanity beyond Earth, there was Dr. Lawrence Bingham.
Brilliant, idealistic, and increasingly troubled by the people surrounding his greatest work, Bingham believed science could push humanity toward a better future. His research would eventually lead to the Gold Box — an impossible device capable of opening pathways through space and time.
But inventions do not exist apart from the people who control them.
Bingham’s Notebook: A Midas Files Story will travel back through the hidden history behind the Midas Files universe, exploring Bingham’s early work, his relationship with his wife Eva, his complicated friendship with Malcolm Kane, the rise of Majestic 12 and Project Sovereign Eagle, and the choices that ultimately place his greatest discovery in dangerous hands.
At the center of the story is the object readers of Call of the Minotaur already know well: Bingham’s Notebook.
The Notebook would one day provide Caroline and her friends with knowledge Bingham himself would never live to see them use. But how did it come to exist? Why did Bingham decide that his discoveries needed to be recorded? And how much can one person really change when history already seems determined to follow its course?
Those questions lead to a larger idea at the heart of the story.
History may be a river. No single person can simply command it to stop or flow backward. But small choices matter. One stone may barely disturb the current. Enough stones, placed by enough people across enough generations, can eventually redirect the river itself.
Bingham’s Notebook will explore what it means to live within that current — and whether the time in which we find ourselves matters nearly as much as what we choose to do with the time we are given.
It is a story about science and secrecy, friendship and betrayal, knowledge and power. But perhaps most of all, it is about legacy: the strange ability of an idea written down by one person to reach someone decades later and change what happens next.
Readers of The Midas Protocol already know how Lawrence and Eva Bingham’s story ends.
Bingham’s Notebook will tell the story of why what Larry left behind was only beginning.
Coming soon for 2027.
