The Springfield Incident
by Ralph Gilson
Category: Fiction

It was a normal commuting day for Martin Harkins—that is until the Martian spaceship crashed in front of him on I-95 in rush hour. Out of the stricken ship comes a Martian Princess and she is kidnapped by the Government, convinced she is some kind of terrorist spy. Martin meets members of the Martian rescue operation, including the Princess' future husband who is eager to avoid hostilities and the inevitable casualties. But the hard-nosed and deceitful Martian Fleet Commander, Tulla, has other ideas. With maniacal fervor, he first sets out to retrieve the Princess, but then becomes obsessed with punishing the humans for what they have done. And the FBI has plans of their own—they have no intention of giving up their beautiful and mysterious prisoner. What follows is a contest of wills as Martin gets swept up into the rescue operation, desperate to find the Princess before she is injured or killed. Because if she is killed, mankind is doomed.