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==Books== ''The Hunt For Zero Point'',<ref name="atlantic"/> published by Century Random House in the UK in 2001 and Broadway Books in the US in 2002, details Cook's ten-year investigation into [[anti-gravity]] technology.<ref>{{cite news |last=Scharf |first=Michael |date=June 2002 |title=PW Talks with Nick Cook |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/26530-pw-talks-with-nick-cook.html |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> It focuses on [[Igor Witkowski]]'s conspiracy theory that the Nazis developed a [[Die Glocke (hoax)|UFO-like device]] which allegedly became the basis for US research.<ref>{{cite news |last=McClure |first=Kevin |title=Nazi Ufos |url=http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/184/nazi_ufos.html |work=Fortean Times |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104175440/http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/184/nazi_ufos.html |archivedate=4 November 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Skeptoid|id=4293|number=293|date=17 January 2012|title=Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons|accessdate=22 June 2017|quote=Through this transcript, Witkowski claimed to have learned about Die Glocke. This account became popular in the West when aviation writer Nick Cook included it in his popular 2002 book The Hunt for Zero Point, a tale of the cranks and colorful characters who have tried to invent anti-gravity machines. Since that time, you've been able to find all you want on the Internet about Nazi flying saucers.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work=Skeptic | title=The Hunt For Zero Point | url=http://www.skeptic.org.uk/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/330-the-hunt-for-zero-point | access-date=24 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102339/http://www.skeptic.org.uk/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/330-the-hunt-for-zero-point | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Cook has also written two novels, ''Angel Archangel''<ref>{{cite news |work=New Scientist |last=Gunston |first=Bill |date=December 1990 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12817455.600-review-there-i-was-nothing-on-the-clock--flights-of-fancy-for-christmas-begin-with-puzzles-for-the-mind-soar-with-balinese-birds-and-british-bats-then-descend-to-the-tomb-and-chaotic-presents.html |title=Review: There I was, nothing on the clock - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents }}</ref> and ''Aggressor'',<ref>{{cite news |title=Review:Aggressor |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-07623-8 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> as well as ghostwriting a number of books predominantly on military subjects.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thebookseller.com/feature/ghost-i-see-me | title=Is this a ghost I see before me? | work=The Bookseller | first=Rod | last=Stewart |date=June 2000}}</ref>
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