"Secret Life of Shadows: The Harvard Enigma" Prologue

"A world on edge, the year was 1972".

 The summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany. Featuring 7,134 athletes from 121 National Olympic Committees, competing in 195 events across 21 sports.

 American swimmer Mark Spitz made history by winning seven gold medals, The Soviet Union topped the medal table, continuing its dominance in Olympic competition. However, The Munich Olympics Massacre took the world by surprise, an horrific attack, where Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and ultimately killed through a failed rescue mission. This remains a pivotal moment in Olympic history—celebrated for athletic achievement and design, but forever marked by tragedy and its impact on global sports and security.

Across America, the shadow of Watergate a political scandal involving hidden corruption and a wave of political deception deepened, Nixon had just been re-elected in the US Presidential Election with a landslide win against George McGovern. However, this was said to be a time of hidden agendas, as the president faced growing scrutiny over his involvement in the Watergate scandal the political climate was politically charged, and trust in government was eroded. eroding trust in the highest of offices.

All while a growing awareness of pollution and ecological issues, brought about the emergence of environmentalism, where the Cold War's unseen hand gripped every nation, and the very air seemed thick with suspicion.

On university campuses, the Vietnam War still raged, fuelling protests and rebellion against a conflict that seemed like it wouldn't end. This year saw heightened tensions between Americans and those fighting for freedom. Yet, it was also a year of bold new frontiers. Humanity was reaching for the stars, as Space Exploration Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 was a sense of pushing scientific boundaries.

After witnessing the failed rescue mission at the Munich Olympics, Professor Patrick became consumed with his own idea free energy. He saw how limited resources could be the cause of tragedy, and he sought to find a solution that would redefine humanity's future."

Even as a creeping energy crisis cast its own long shadow over the planet. The idea of limitless power, once a distant dream, was becoming a desperate need – and for some, a dangerous secret."

"It was into this crucible of suspicion and burgeoning innovation that Professor John Patrick, an eccentric genius in Applied Physics at Harvard, dared to dream. Professor John Patrick wasn't just a theorist; he was an inventor, a bold man who saw solutions where others saw only intractable problems. His mind hummed with circuits and equations, and for a fleeting, dangerous moment, he and his team, spurred on by a competition sponsored by the enigmatic Company X, touched upon a truth that promised to redefine humanity's future free energy. A revelation of such, in a world built on finite resources and controlled power, was not merely disruptive; it was a threat.

It would seem the moment, Professor John Patrick’s ideas sparked main stream media attention, he would vanish from the face of the earth. Fifty years ago this week, he went missing and not a word of his whereabouts, disappearing without informing a single person still remains a mystery to this day. Now, exactly five decades later, the echoes of that suppressed truth ripple through the same stone-clad courtyards. Finn Patrick, a young, bright-eyed 22-year-old Irish American, arrives at Harvard, stepping into the very legacy his grandfather unwittingly left behind. Unaware of the dangerous currents that still run beneath the Ivy League veneer, Finn, a student of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is about to discover that some secrets refuse to stay buried, and the shadows of 1972 are far from dormant."