Review: Labatt... no Alien.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2012
Into a small Nevada town comes an alien (inside a human surrogate). Anam is being hunted for presumed crimes against his own kind. The mayor, Jack Stout, puts him the the care of bar owner, Bill Trout (funny right?).Bill wants absolutely nothing more than to get rid of Anam - kill him, abondone him, ship him off to Chicago, whatever, anything - before he brings more aliens into town.While Anam digs out in the desert searching for something - the first alien - while under the ruse of a paleontologist, people are seeking him out and plotting around him for their own reasons.There's a bizarre turn abut midway through where Bill has been brewing his latest mix `Alien Blue'. Effectually what the brew does is to suppress memory so that when the aliens come to "erase" (eradicate) all knowledge of Anam they wont be able to kill off humanity because people won't know what Anam's secret is, thereby saving the race.Subsequently there are many traitorous turns, mostly associated to MacTeague influence (they're something akin to Alien paparazzi but more like a protection group). Because of a series of many events the first batch of Blue is a failure and there are countless persons who become infected and the aliens gain the upper-hand.Bill, carrying the alien that was in Anam seeks to re-brew his beer, again he is thwarted - many die and unexpected characters emerge as heroines in possession of alien secrets while being able to drive them away from the small town in Nevada.Apparently there is to be a follow up, however since I found this work a bit muddled, predominantly because of too many main and unclear secondary characters I doubt I'll be reading the second installment.