Saucer (Paperback, New Ed)

Stephen Coonts has acquired a considerable following for such gritty thrillers as America and Hong Kong, specialising in well-researched, authentic detail. But few of the best writers are content to repeat themselves, and Saucer represents a quantum leap for Coonts in terms of both ambition and achievement. His hero Rip Cantrell is a seismic surveyor working in the Sahara. He spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, and his investigations unearth a piece of metal entombed in the sandstone. Rip and his associates uncover a mysterious vessel - one of alien provenance - that has been resting in the sands for 140,000 years. But their astonishing secret is soon hijacked by a US airforce UFO investigation team and a group sent by an Australian billionaire keen to acquire the vessel's secret. And in the middle of this edgy situation, the Libyan military makes an unwelcome appearance. As the danger grows on all sides, Rip (with the aid of a beguiling female ex-airforce test pilot) tries to find out how the flight systems of the saucer work, thinking that there is only one way to save the ship from these warring factions... but a highly dangerous one. There is no great profundity here, but who cares? This is a highly satisfactory piece of thriller writing, crammed with ingenious detail (the eponymous saucer itself, for instance) and punchy, idiosyncratic plotting. If Coonts's hero is cut from a very familiar cloth, the reader is hardly likely to worry about that as the action barrels along. (Kirkus UK)

A team of surveyors working in the Sahara happen upon an object buried deep in the rock. The object turns out to be a flying saucer and it is older than the rock it is buried in - 140,000 years old at least. Rip, a student working with the team, is keen to find out as much about the flying saucer as possible. But so are many other people, including the US Military, a team working for a billionaire Australian businessman and a group of Arabs. Rip foils their attempts to commandeer the craft with the help of a disillusioned female pilot called Charley. Together they steal the saucer and Charley takes them both into orbit. Rip's plan is to take the saucer to his uncle's Missouri farm - but first he has to avoid being tracked down by everyone else.

General

Imprint:	Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2003
Authors:	Stephen Coonts
Dimensions:	177 x 111 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	329
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7528-4895-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7528-4895-X
Barcode:	9780752848952

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