Stickmen - Hardcover

Lee, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1881475913 ISBN 13: 9781881475910

Publisher: Cemetery Dance Pubns, 1999

Synopsis

Crashed UFOs. Dead aliens on ice. Extraterrestrial visitations. This is all the stuff of crackpot conspiracy nuts, right? Wrong. A stolen military weapon. A maladjusted little boy who sees "things" at night, and the best professional assassin in the world sent to kill him. Then there’s the washed-up journalist who's just been told the most important secret of all time. Welcome to the realm of The Stickmen, one of the most relentless thrillers yet in this age of government subterfuge, disinformation, and conspiracies within conspiracies. UFO buffs, X-Files junkies, and military-tech fans alike will devour this meticulously detailed and blazingly paced millennial thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page is turned.

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Reviews

Continuing the tack of his 1999 UFOpus Operator B, Lee posts a pulpy tale steeped in X-Files paranoia of extraterrestrial contact and government cover-up. Conspiracy crank Harlan Garrett, a bottom-feeding journalist on the backlist of every rag that panders to the Roswell mindset, is down to his last dime when he's abducted to the deathbed of Norton T. Swenson, the brigadier general who mustered him out of the Air Force for his illegal investigations. Swenson admits to heading the team that salvaged a crash-landed UFO at Nellis, Nevada, in 1962, and gives Garrett the leads he needs to find the remains of the ship and its occupants under lock and key at an army base in Maryland. But Garrett soon finds himself the quarry of John Sanders, a renegade from Swanson's crew and now an assassin. Also on Sanders's hit list is Danny Vander, a an eight-year-old victim of alien abduction whose disturbing dreams of "stickmen" have a crucial connection to the theft of a nuclear device from an army munitions depot that will draw Garrett to him. Lee heaps so many conspiracy cliches onto his characters' shoulders that only Garrett has room to develop a personality. But the smart-aleck journalist proves just the right combination of sympathetic anti-hero and invulnerable Saturday matinee action figure to pull the reader along on his hyperventilating adventure. Like the saucer ride some of the characters purport to have taken, you don't believe this tale for a minute afterward, but it's exhilarating while it lasts.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cemetery Dance Pubns
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881475913
• ISBN 13: 9781881475910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 235