What connects alien cover-ups, classified government secrets, Cold War paranoia, and decades of UFO conspiracy theories? For many UFO enthusiasts, the answer is Majestic 12, often shortened to MJ-12.
Welcome back to Bingham’s Notebook, where we explore the hidden corners of the world surrounding The Midas Files.
This week, we’re looking at a shadowy organization that may help explain some of the more esoteric aspects of Dr. Lawrence Bingham’s research: the Order of the Crescent Star.
Welcome back to Bingham’s Notebook, where we explore the hidden corners of The Midas Files.
For this entry, I wanted to take a closer look at Mortimer Vanterpool, one of the strangest and most dangerous figures in The Midas Protocol. This may not be the flashiest topic for longtime readers, but clarifying Vanterpool’s abilities helps me understand how he works as a character — and how best to use him as the series continues.
As I worked through the world of The Midas Files, I found myself creating characters whose traits sometimes echoed real political figures. Not direct copies. Not hidden biographies. More like creative composites — fictional people shaped by recognizable fragments of history, personality, ideology, and public image.
In this Bingham’s Notebook entry, we take a closer look at Dr. Ibrahim Aziz, a key new character introduced at the beginning of Call of the Minotaur: Midas Files Book Two.
Creating a fictional world is one of the most thrilling parts of writing a novel. It allows a writer to construct places, societies, secret histories, and hidden ecosystems that never existed — but still need to feel real enough for readers to believe in them.
In The Midas Protocol: Midas Files Book One, I introduced time travel with a certain amount of deliberate fuzziness.
I believe it was James Scott Bell who described a book’s theme as something that often reveals itself after the story has been told.
In The Midas Protocol: Midas Files Book One, Hank Raglan begins as a well-meaning but deeply naive protagonist.
Step into The Midas Files, a techno-thriller series where quantum mystery, ancient power, corporate ambition, and otherworldly secrets collide. Start the journey with The Midas Protocol: Midas Files Book One by Matt De Reno.
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