Review: A cerebral take on the standard alien sci fi adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
It opens quickly with a group of US soldiers acting as peacekeepers to stop a civil war and they come upon a hospital. Doctors and patients scramble to leave the area and we follow one of the doctors who decides to stay with the grunts. THEN things get interesting because they discover news from elsewhere in the world that giant space ships have entered our solar system and are headed this way!That is basically the plot! Then about midway into the story- the grunts and the doctor get attacked and captured by a two bit dictator who has watched too many American movies and yet he has a twisted sense of right and wrong. Things start to look pretty grim but then after a few twists of fate- the tone of the book expands in a huge way you never see coming. To say more would spoil the book but if you prefer a thinking man's UFO story you shouldn't miss this one!As a bonus- the author sprinkles clever insights on the human condition as well as some scientific facts and trivia throughout the story without being preachy. This is done through dialogue exchanges between characters not through annotated notes.This is a refreshing spin on the usual UFO invasion story. Very highly recommended!