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Date of Release: August 2003 |
Publisher: Leisure Books |
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Top secret elite military cadre ONYX arrives in town to secure the perimeter. No one will enter or leave quarantined Collier. To the surviving townsfolk, the operation looks more like an invasion force, which turns worse as the soldiers obey orders of strict security enforcement. Violence between both sides of Americans break out even while the UFO remains under the waters of the nearby lake. Unless cooler heads prevail, further tragedy seems like the only outcome.
FIREWORKS is not an Independence Day or War of the Worlds ET invasion tale. No, this is a tale of how people react to the unknown and to being kept under pressure. How they can turn on their fellow man to make sure they themselves survive.
Though why the UFO was flying over the earth is never revealed (sequel perhaps?), James A. Moore forces his audience to ponder what seems like believable actions and reactions of real people, soldier and resident alike, to the unreal and foreign events that transpire around them.
Excellent book that will keep you up late into the night...
