Review: A real page-turner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2012
Chris Nuttall has given us a real page-turner of a novel with taut action, intricate plotting, and vivid combat and politics. Set in a near future with space shuttles, nuclear weapons, laser and microwave death rays up against aliens with a very different perspective on what makes good technology, warfare on the military battlefield is matched by warfare on the political and psychological battlefield. The world is invaded by aliens with plausible weapons, not Hollywood magic.  Earth must rise to the challenge, not with 'first the aliens win, then the humans win, then it's over plotting' but with a see-saw competition as each side searches out the other side's weaknesses.  There are multiple points of view, but the number is contained so that the reader can follow what is happening and have sympathy for the characters.  There have been many motives for an alien invasion of Earth, but the one seen here is to my knowledge relatively unique.