Both SAUCER and LIBERTY have reaffirmed that Stephen Coonts is growing faster than any other adventure writer. Stephen Coonts is now a SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author There are over 17 million copies of his books in print worldwide. He is rapidly establishing himself as a thoughtful as well as an action-packed writer and gets terrific reviews: 'Mr Coonts knows how to write and build suspense. His dialogue is realistic, the storyline mesmeric. That is the mark of a natural storyteller' NEW YORK TIMES. 'Nobody does it better than Stephen Coonts' Clive Cussler. 'Strong, vivid writing ... impressive power and authenticity' WASHINGTON POST. 'First-rate adventure fiction ... a dizzyingly complex adventure of apocalyptic importance ... compelling' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. 'Superbly written' WASHINGTON TIMES. 'Gripping ... Once begun, this book cannot be laid aside' WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Stephen Coonts is a former naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. His previous novels have been worldwide bestsellers. A former attorney, he resides with his wife and son in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In this humorous UFO thriller, the sequel to bestseller Coonts's Saucer (2003), pilot Charlotte "Charley" Pine is hired to fly a French spaceplane to the moon, where millionaire Pierre Artois is building a base. Once there, she discovers that Artois has equipped the base with an antigravity beam projector and plans to make himself and his malevolent wife, Julie, rulers of the world. Charley promptly returns to Earth to warn everybody. Meanwhile, Newton Chadwick, a mad scientist in the pay of the French, kidnaps saucer-expert Egg Cantrell and forces him to fly to the moon in the original Roswell saucer that landed in 1947. Egg's nephew Rip Cantrell and Charley steal another flying saucer from the Smithsonian, and soon saucers and other borrowed alien high-tech are in pitched battle over the moon. Later, French pilot Jean-Paul Lalouette (perhaps the book's most engaging character) is determined to go down fighting and nearly turns the tables in a gripping aerial duel of saucers up and down the East Coast. Cartoonish characters with names like Senator Blohardt and Joe Bob Hooker add to the fun. Agent, Robert Gottlieb. (Sept. 7) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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