The Speed of Write

Blasphemy’sex-CIA agent Wyman Ford is back in Impact,Douglas Preston’s newest thriller. Sent on a secret mission to Cambodia looking for a mine that contains radioactive gemstones, he discovers that the stakes are much higher than he’s been led to believe. Somehow, this mine is related to a meteor impact site in coastal Maine and not in a good way.

At the National Propulsion Facility, a newly promoted scientist discovers his deceased predecessor was more interested in gamma rays coming from Mars than his assigned job. In coastal Maine, college dropout Abbey is interested in Astronomy and photographs the meteorite coming down, then searches for the impact site in hopes of selling it on eBay. All of their paths will intersect, because the scientist has discovered an alien device on one of the moons of Mars and it’s just fired a warning shot at the Earth. Wyman and Abbey will join forces to discover the truth and rush to save the Earth from an alien attack.

While the premise is just a tad silly, I’ll put emphasis on the tad part. Douglas Preston delivers a satisfying adventure thriller and he can be as silly as he wants to be as far as I’m concerned. He’s not the first author to push the envelope of believability, and he won’t be the last, but he does it successfully. That’s all I can ask for!

Filed under: Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller