Operation Thunder Child is a book by British civil servant Nick Pope. It is the prequel to his novel Operation Lightning Strike. He is most notably known for working in for the British Ministry of Defence on the subject of unidentified flying objects. Operation Thunder Child was first published in 1999. The book had to be cleared by the Ministry of Defence prior to publication.
A sequel, Operation Lightning Strike was published in 2000.
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