Start with the premise that “we are not alone”. Believe for a moment that a flying saucer really did crash land in Roswell, New Mexico, and that the U. S. government and military recovered both the ship and the alien crew, and have been covering that information up from the very start. Assume at least one alien survived the crash. You now are in the proper mindset to read this book.

It goes as one would expect. Aliens crash. Government grabs them, and quickly secrets the crew and ship away to some underground facility in the middle of the desert. Everything is High Security. The military wants to kill the aliens and learn from their advanced technology, to use that knowledge against the Russians. The scientists want to study everything. The President wants to be kept out of the loop, in the hopes of avoiding looking bad in the future, whatever the outcome.

This is one of those books that has so many characters, introduced one on top of the other, that the reader just about needs a scorecard to keep track of who did or said what. After a while though, I noticed that it didn’t really matter if I was lost in any particular part, because Randle has built in redundancys in his story line. The most blatent example of takes place towards the end of the book. Two men sit outside the underground facility, about to take drastic action (I will leave out just what they are about to do, in case you want to read the book). One mentions to the other a reference to “Custer’s Last Stand”. Then, in the very next chapter, (All the chapters are short. Most are only a few pages.), the readers are following a group who is underground and struggling to escape from the facility. One of them also refers to “Custer’s Last Stand”. These instances take place only a few pages from each other.

If you are looking for something with lots of action, that doesn’t waste time with full explanations, or deep characters, than this is the book for you. If you wanted somthing more, than I recommend skipping this book. If you are looking to just read a fiction book with lots of aliens in it, then this isn’t the book for you, either. Like the movie “Alien”, the reader has to go through a big portion of the story before much happens with an alien, and even then, its sporatic and largly unexplained. They mostly jump out and attack people, and then run away.

I read some of the blurbs on the back of the book, and the author’s note. From these, it seems that this book is trying to present itself as “historical fiction”. The back page says that the author, Randle, is “a captain in the U. S. Air Force, and an authority on alien abduction”. I found it in the science fiction section of Barnes and Noble. You be the judge.