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 Title:                  Saucer The Conquest
 Author:                 Stephen Coonts
 Read By:                Eric Conger
 Copyright:              2004
 Audiobook Copyright:    2004
 Genre:                  audiobook

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Book Description
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From Library Journal
In a departure from his Jake Grafton series, Coonts (America, Hong Kong, Cuba) 
introduces Rip Cantrell, a 22-year-old seismic surveyor who finds a flying saucer 
that has been buried in the Sahara for 140,000 years. Everyone wants it, 
including nasty billionaires and bad governments, and Rip's job is to keep it 
out of their hands. With air force pilot Charlotte (Charley) Pine, he learns 
to fly the beast and keep it away from the bad guys. Coonts's many fans may 
be disappointed, as what could have been a great adventure novel fails badly. 
Is Saucers meant as a satire? A comedy? High adventure? All of the above? 
The result is, in fact, none of the above. Even considering the topic, the 
plot is implausible, and the book also suffers from cardboard characters 
and wooden dialog. Cartoonish fun but definitely "Coonts Light"; 
for larger collections. Robert Conroy, Warren, MI
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. 
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
Rip Cantrell, doing seismic surveys in the Sahara, stumbles 
across a 140,000-year-old flying saucer in working condition. 
The air force sends beautiful ex-test pilot Charley Pine to investigate. 
Rip and Charley then have to fly for their lives, learning saucer-piloting 
as they go, from grabby, demonic Australian billionaire Hedrick, who wants 
to sell the saucer to the highest bidder. Eventually Rip and Charley get 
help from Rip's Missouri tinker uncle, Egg, and eventually the Air and 
Space Museum gets the saucer after, in the manner of thrillers, Hedrick 
and other would-be saucer-grabbers get theirs. Coonts doesn't always 
reach the highest level of logic here, but his knack for pacing and a
ction is sound, and his sense of humor is ready for such developments 
as the effect of the saucer's antigravity on a pop-foul ball. 
He treats the romance of Rip and the eight-years-older Charley affectionately, 
and he shows a soaring passion for flying. The rather lighthearted 
thriller-cum-romance-cum-sf-novel could be called Rip and Charley's Excellent Adventure. 
Coonts stalwarts will find that reading this reminds them of his nonfiction 
book about flying an antique biplane, The Cannibal Queen (1992), rather than 
one of his Jake Grafton yarns. Roland Green
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved 
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
