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A carregar... Saucer (2002)por Stephen Coonts
   Books Read in 2014 (730) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Started out interesting. Then as soon as a couple of characters fled in what I can only describe as in a comical way, I was out. Too silly. It didn't help, that getting to that point, one of the characters was conveniently clever when it came to the craft. Unbelievably so. (  ) JBTaylor42 | Feb 7, 2021 |  When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, he investigates-and finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years. Their discovery doesn't remain a secret for long. The U.S. Air Force sends a UFO investigation team, which arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian billionaire to steal the saucer's secrets. Before either side can outwit the other, the Libyan military arrives. Meanwhile, Rip has been checking out the saucer. With the help of a beautiful ex-Air Force test pilot Charley Pine, Rip flies the saucer away, embarking on a fantastic journey into space and around the world, keeping just ahead of those who want the saucer for themselves. I loved this book. (  ) Gmomaj | Feb 16, 2020 | The spaceship was the most realistic thing about this book. The characters were over the top and the science was full of holes. (  ) myojencards | Sep 5, 2016 | Don't read this as serious sci-fi with scientific explanation and deeply developed characters...it's not that. Light satire makes it a book that's just plain fun. Yes, the characters are a bit flat and credulity gets stretched here and there. The reaction of government to the finding of a flyable flying saucer was spot on--stupid and clumsy--just like always. Couple that with a greedy global zillionaire and a budding romance...you just can't stop listening. Coonts wrote more of Rip Cantrell--I may just have to check them out! (  ) buffalogr | Jan 11, 2015 | 340 pages Science fiction. Get this book from your local library. Coonts tells the story of a young man who finds a functional space ship in the Liybian desert. I enjoyed the book for what it was, light reading. Coonts does not do a good job of character development. I felt the action sequences a bit improbable. Yet it was fun light reading and it was funny. Coonts has written better. Cataloger623 | Nov 8, 2014 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Belongs to SeriesSaucer (1)
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 American businessman and s 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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