Manhattan reflected in the immense smooth underside of an alien slab, as pedestrians look up.

A science-fiction thriller

POINT
ONE
PERCENT

KEITH WATTS

Eight billion people. Ten ships.
Room for one in a thousand.

Henry Essex stands alone in an airport, carrying a worn shoulder bag.

The mission

One last mission.
Two places aboard.

On the day alien ships arrive to evacuate a dying Earth, former covert operative Henry Essex receives a terminal diagnosis.

Now the government offers him a deal: bring home a scientist it needs, and his estranged daughter and granddaughter will be guaranteed passage.

He has two weeks to earn them a future.

Dr. Anna Berg tends seedlings in her greenhouse against a snowy Norwegian landscape.

The scientist

She’s been chosen to leave.
She intends to stay.

Dr. Anna Berg develops seeds that can survive heat, drought and hostile soil. Her work could feed humanity on another planet.

She believes it can still feed the people on this one.

Henry is sent to retrieve her. But Anna has no intention of abandoning Earth—and he is not the only person coming for her.

A dark SUV travels through a Norwegian snowstorm with two vehicles pursuing it.

The pursuit

Every border is closing.
Every hour counts.

Governments are competing for the people they believe will give them power in a new world. Anna is one of the most valuable.

Across airports, frozen roads and Norwegian wilderness, Henry must keep her alive while his own body begins to fail.

Government officials negotiate in a high-rise room overlooking Manhattan beneath the slab.

Screen adaptation

For film
and television

When alien ships arrive to evacuate just 0.1% of a dying Earth’s population, terminally ill former covert operative Henry Essex accepts one last mission: retrieve a botanist vital to humanity’s survival in exchange for guaranteed passage for his estranged daughter and granddaughter.

For audiences of Children of Men and Arrival.

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Seeds, research notebooks and young plants on a laboratory workbench beside an Arctic landscape.

For film and television

A future for
the chosen few.

First contact becomes a selection crisis. The ships offer salvation to just 0.1% of humanity.
Old rivalries follow humanity into space. Nations compete to control who boards—and who holds power at planetfall.
A lead role with personal stakes. A dying operative takes one last job for his estranged daughter and granddaughter.
A rescue with a moral trap. The scientist Henry must retrieve believes she can do more good by staying.
Big sci-fi. Ground-level execution. City-sized alien ships provide the spectacle, while the action stays rooted in roads, airports, wilderness and close-quarters pursuit.