- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Headline; New Ed edition (6 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747267278
- ISBN-13: 978-0747267270
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 208,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A compelling novel of scientific speculation and mystery, in the vein of THE DA VINCI CODE.
A research station in Eastern Europe is suddenly bombarded with rhythmic bursts of subnuclear particles from the skies - a pattern so complex that it can only have come from a highly evolved intelligence. The scientists are amazed by the information that the messages reveal: secrets of an alien technology far in advance of our own. Should the signal be acknowledged and contact established? The world's superpowers have other ideas, and suddenly the scientists find themselves at the heart of a global conspiracy - on the run from forces determined to suppress the messages and what they contain. And what will be the effect on a world suddenly faced with unimaginable technological breakthrough...?
A research station in Eastern Europe is suddenly bombarded with rhythmic bursts of subnuclear particles from the skies - a pattern so complex that it can only have come from a highly evolved intelligence. The scientists are amazed by the information that the messages reveal: secrets of an alien technology far in advance of our own. Should the signal be acknowledged and contact established? The world's superpowers have other ideas, and suddenly the scientists find themselves at the heart of a global conspiracy - on the run from forces determined to suppress the messages and what they contain. And what will be the effect on a world suddenly faced with unimaginable technological breakthrough...?
About the Author
Professor Bill Napier is an astronomer at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland and an honorary professor at the Institute for Astrobiology of Cardiff University. He is interested in the relationship between life and the Universe and is a leading authority on the celestial hazard issue. He has co-authored three scientific books and about eighty research papers, and has written two previous thrillers.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I relished this book and was sorry when it ended! Didn't want to put the book down actually as I was totally involved in its world, which is a pretty fair compliment!!
This is a great book, with highly original ideas. The Lure combines thrilling and intensely visual writing with tense and brilliant drama and conflict. The conspiracy to try and control the benefits of alien messages is great, tackled from a refreshing and well thought out perspective. The author is an astronomer with serious credentials, which lends the book great weight and authority. It is a "what-if" scenario, which addresses profound questions about our place in the Galaxy as well as the existence and detection of aliens.
This is a great book, with highly original ideas. The Lure combines thrilling and intensely visual writing with tense and brilliant drama and conflict. The conspiracy to try and control the benefits of alien messages is great, tackled from a refreshing and well thought out perspective. The author is an astronomer with serious credentials, which lends the book great weight and authority. It is a "what-if" scenario, which addresses profound questions about our place in the Galaxy as well as the existence and detection of aliens.
This is the third book by Bill Napier I have read, and again it's fab! It really made me think, and the exposition is accomplished and draws you in to the superb ending. Also makes me want to visit the dark places of Eastern Europe!!
Really a must read that lingered for a long time in my mind after I put the book down.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mr Napier is a Scientist who writes Novels,as opposed to some writers who through impeccable research manage to write about or around science in their novels.
Following "Nemesis" and "Revelation" Napier has set a high standard for suspense,excitement and pure joy.
"The Lure" meets the challenge and even exceeds his first books.
Napier is maturing as a writer and his thriller prose is definitely improving.
Happily this is not at the expense of his science which remains intriguing and interesting even as Napier manages to avoid the shallowness he could have so easily fallen into in an attempt to widen his appeal.
"The Lure" is superb.
Following "Nemesis" and "Revelation" Napier has set a high standard for suspense,excitement and pure joy.
"The Lure" meets the challenge and even exceeds his first books.
Napier is maturing as a writer and his thriller prose is definitely improving.
Happily this is not at the expense of his science which remains intriguing and interesting even as Napier manages to avoid the shallowness he could have so easily fallen into in an attempt to widen his appeal.
"The Lure" is superb.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Napier has chosen to deal with what, in the eyes of the UFO fraternity, is a cliched question: What happens if contact is made with an etraterrestial entity? How would mankind react? And what would likely happen? And the question I ask of this novel is, has he succeeded in bringing an original twist?
No, he's not but that's not to invalidate the book. I should say right away that it kept me hanging on and wanting to finish it. But what he has done is to tell it like it might conceivably be and the detail is there to realistically back it up. Some might argue too much detail as there is a fair bit of maths and physics interwoven into the plot but Napier never loses sight of the fact he may well be writing for science airheads like myself and it is skillfully explained without being patronising or out of context.
His writing style seemed a little tense at the beginning but he soon relaxes and tells a good tale, though the number of people who seem to possess "owl" like features was a bit iritating.
There is a pace to the book and yes, a certain level of tension. Without giving anything away about the plot, it can only go one of two ways at the end and it is interesting that he chose the one he did.
If you are looking for a book about UFO's, this is not it. The word is never mentioned. He does present the sceptical and believing arguments about extraterrestial life very well but does not even nod in the direction of the UFO phenomenon and just what it is that so many thousands of people have claimed to see in the skies and on the ground for the last 60 years.
I would certainly recomend it and as an entertaining, informative and exciting read, it would sit well in the suitcase for the holidays and so on.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
great ideas, a bit lacking in prose and tension
Bill Napier has excellent and exciting ideas about scientific subjects.His problem seems to be how to build people around these ideas. Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by J. van Maris
Thriller novel
A good read, not too seriously written in parts which was a let down, one can imagine the movie industry making a film of the book and it being spoiled through lack of gravitas. Read more
Published on 13 May 2009 by M. Simpson
A different approach to an old theme
A slightly different slant on the first contact theme and the decision as to whether to reply or not. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2007 by Mark Mcclelland
loosing pace fast
Hmmm, the books certainly starts of on an interesting premise - how to deal with an intelligent message from an extra-terrestial/non-human source, how to verify its authenticity... Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2003 by negativtoo
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