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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty decent retro-cospiracy book., 8 Mar 2001
By A Customer
I managed to miss the Dark Skies TV series entirely, so don't expect a fanboy review here, this is my first foray into the world of Dark Skies. To be frank, it was far from a disappointment.The book is set in the late Kennedy era, encompassing the space race, the cuban missile crisis and the first waves of Beatle-mania. Our heroes, an idealistic young couple, are forceibly dragged into a secret war between a covert US government agency (Majestic, getting yet another outing)and a race of aggresive alien parasites. The stages in the war are neatly tied in to benchmark conspiracy events (The Roswell Crash and the Kennedy assasination) as well as more mundane, though no less spectacular affairs (Launches of unmanned rockets and the appearance of a liverpudlian 4-piece pop combo on the Ed-Sullivan show). The writing style flows pretty well most of the time, though sometimes it can get a little dull. However the story is clever and the characters have a nice ring of believability to them (Frank Bach, the head of the Majestic Bureau springs to mind). Not as thorough an examination of American conspiracy folklore as other books, such as Whitley Streiber's 'MAJESTIC', nor quite as entertaining as other conspiracy novels, Michael Stackpole's 'DARK CONSPIRACY' books spring to mind. However this is an engaging read and will definately keep you entertained until the end, but don't expect much re-readability value.
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