On storage cabin

The overall setting and background of Deception Point by Dan Brown is interesting. NASA is said to discover a huge meteorite buried in a thick flow of ice near the North Pole. It sends a crew there to investigate, and they manage to raise it, then take samples finding fossils inside of things that look like ancient Earth insects. The President plans to use this proof of extraterrestrial life to boost his flagging re-election campaign. Of course, that's just the beginning. There's nothing to hide away in a storage cabinets. But we're already wondering why Special Forces operatives killed a geologist in the opening of the book.