3.9
Fantasy & SciFi
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.
Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control.
Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand.
© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781094179483
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 10 november 2020
3.9
Fantasy & SciFi
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.
Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control.
Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand.
© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781094179483
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 10 november 2020
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Douglas
19 juli 2023
Except for the shortage of females in the administration, science labs and military ranks (which are more representative of Heinlein's own age), and the US-centrisism (when they have saved the US, Mexico and Canada, all of Earth is saved), the plot have aged quite well. The 4 *'s is with the perspective of the ~1950's. Unexpected surprice turns and exciting until the end. The book come out better than the movies based on it.
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