The Man Who Mastered Gravity: A Twisted Tale of Space, Time and The Mysteries In Between Paperback – 16 Mar. 2023

Extraordinary story, but could easily be 100 pages shorter if someone had edited the book professionally. Jesse Michels you tube interview with author and summary evidence, is a more succinct presentation of the evidence.

Bought this book on the back of a cursory surf on a Jesse Michels YouTube vid and, wish I hadn’t. I think there are some truthful parts mixed with a great deal of padding from off the shelf historical events and personalities; with the rest pure fiction. I also think the author lifted/embellished a good deal from the thoroughly authoritative and authentic book by Nick Cook. The blatant self advertisement of the author’s first book continued ad nauseam and had no reasonable linkage to the subject matter. Some characters such as the alleged X craft submariner turned super spy begs belief and disgraces the memory of the courageous men involved in the real operations. Anyone who has served in the military and brushed with real extraordinary units and people knows the scenarios and terminology used in this book is amateur at best. I agree with the other reviewer also annoyed with the seemingly verbatim docudrama padding use of domestic family story telling as lengthy and largely unnecessary. The use of splintering this tale between alternating time lines, family drama and historical events makes for an unsatisfying read.I suspect the scarcity of evidence with provenance has led to a problem of a potentially interesting book being too small but, at least would have been worth the read; versus a longer book that doesn’t seem to know what it actually is. The author makes great play on his book being 500 pages - strip out the dubious, pulp and padding bits and you’ll be down to about a quarter of that. Townsend Brown was obviously an extraordinary talented person bordering on the superlative. But, to believe in some of the subterfuge enabling him to move ‘behind the scenes’ stretches credulity; for instance his resignation from the Navy needs a proper explanation on what was the pending charge about? The career choice of joining the US Navy because he liked the sea and wanted to continue working on his land based scientific research, then going to extraordinary lengths to not go to sea is pardon the pun, unfathomable. Nor, is the in person secret WW2 mission behind enemy lines remotely credible. That sort of thing was done by whole teams and in the wake of advancing Allies; the name dropping of AU 30 is pure theatrics and not backed up with real logistical facts or reference. Whilst it is not entirely unusual for wealthy geniuses to die near penniless, the lack of Brown’s fiscal attention to his inherited wealth and responsibilities seems unduly unfortunate. If he was so wrapped up in black projects and of essential need to the government/military corporations, it would suggest their pay and pension schemes need reviewing, in order to attract and retain talented scientists of his elk.Like many people I would dearly like to know the truth about Townsend Brown and possible discovery of such exotic means of propulsion. I just don’t think you will find any more answers in this book than what is already freely available on the internet at the present time.

This book tells nothing more than speculative suggestions that this chap had some secret background. In the event he did then the title is misleading. The evidence of thin, albeit he clearly worked on some projects for a short period. The book is disjointed, it jumps around so much you simply end up not able to follow it from section to section.I was really looking forward to this book. The closer I got to the end the more disappointed I was thinking I would be.And I was. Dont waste your money.