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Killer (Mass Market Paperback)

by David Drake (Author), Karl Edward Wagner (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc; Reprint edition (Jun 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812509846
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812509847
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,611,411 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hunting an alien monster in Domitian's Rome, 13 Jun 2003
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Killer (Paperback)

Drake and Wagner add several twists on the theme of a race against time as the heroes try to hunt down an alien monster in late first century Rome.

Not that the heroes know their quarry has escaped from a spaceship - the alien merchants who have lost the monster, and are using the heroes to track it down, have disguised themselves as humans when they recruited local trackers to find it. They've told the heroes of the book that they're after a rare and very dangerous escaped ape.

To provide the heroes with additional motivation, the aliens have also set up a situation where the humans have to catch the killer quickly, or the Emperor Domitian will send them to the arena.

But the reader knows that our heroes have even less time than they realise - if they don't stop the monster before it can reproduce, mankind is in serious danger.

This book rather like a version of the film "Species" set in Rome in about 90 AD, though from the description and the cover illustration the monster is not nearly as nice to look at as Natasha Henstridge.

Since we know humanity didn't get wiped out nineteen centuries ago, I couldn't get too frightened about the possibility that the good guys would lose, but I was curious to see how they would overcome the almost insuperable obstacles the authors throw in their way.

Some nice use of irony and humour in the book, and amusing poetic justice in how several of the bad guys get their comeuppance. You are left wondering who is the real "Killer" of the title - the alien monster, the supposedly civilised aliens, or Emperor Domitian. When I read the last line of the book, the answer which I found myself thinking was to tell the speaker "Look in a mirror."

The characters and the description of ancient Rome are adequate rather than brilliant but the story is well told and anyone who likes "hunt the monster" stories is likely to enjoy the book.
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