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    Saucer: The Conquest
    Saucer: The Conquest
    Saucer: The Conquest
    Audiobook3 hours

    Saucer: The Conquest

    Written by Stephen Coonts

    Narrated by Eric Conger

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with Saucer: The Conquest.

    After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers that the project director has installed a world-threatening antigravity beam.

    The French kidnap Rip's Uncle Egg and force him to fly a saucer, hidden in Area 51, to the moon. Rip and Charley have no choice—to rescue Egg and save the world, they must steal the first saucer from its new home, the National Air and Space Museum, and hit the not-so-friendly skies again.

    Stephen Coonts's first Saucer was a smash-hit nationwide. Now, the unlikely duo of Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back, so strap in and leave your passports behind as the fight for freedom on the new frontier begins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2004
    ISBN9781593975708
    Saucer: The Conquest
    Author

    Stephen Coonts

    STEPHEN COONTS is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels that have been translated and published around the world. His books include The Disciple, The Assassin, and the Deep Black and Saucers series, among many other bestsellers. A former naval aviator and Vietnam combat veteran, he is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law. He lives in Colorado.

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    • 1/5
      This was a pretty boring book with no real depth of story. The premise of the book is pretty straight forward but the plot and character development are shallow at best. Guy finds a saucer, guy meets random girl from somewhere, guy and girl take saucer, guy and girl randomly fall in love in a paragraph, guy and girl have it stolen, guy and girl go to get it back. I wasn't even sure if I was suppose to be rooting for the character the book kept focusing on because the book hardly made him seem like the main character until three quarters of the way into it. There is no excitement and no big arc in the story. The characters just seem to have things happen. The two main characters also seem to know a family memeber who happens to be a genius at advanced technology and is just explained as "a farmer who knows a lot about machines". It was a quick read and superficial so it will barely be remembered.

      If you want a better book along the same lines, I would suggest the excellent book and series "Area 51" by Robert Doherty (aka Bob Mayer).

      Final grade - D
    • 5/5
      When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, he investigates-and finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years. Their discovery doesn't remain a secret for long. The U.S. Air Force sends a UFO investigation team, which arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian billionaire to steal the saucer's secrets. Before either side can outwit the other, the Libyan military arrives. Meanwhile, Rip has been checking out the saucer. With the help of a beautiful ex-Air Force test pilot Charley Pine, Rip flies the saucer away, embarking on a fantastic journey into space and around the world, keeping just ahead of those who want the saucer for themselves. I loved this book.
    • 4/5
      Don't read this as serious sci-fi with scientific explanation and deeply developed characters...it's not that. Light satire makes it a book that's just plain fun. Yes, the characters are a bit flat and credulity gets stretched here and there. The reaction of government to the finding of a flyable flying saucer was spot on--stupid and clumsy--just like always. Couple that with a greedy global zillionaire and a budding romance...you just can't stop listening. Coonts wrote more of Rip Cantrell--I may just have to check them out!
    • 5/5
      What would you do if you were lucky enough to find a flying saucer in flying condition and had several armed forces chasing you all over the world for possession of it? Why, buzz a baseball game for the fun of it of course! I found this book to be one absorbing story. Reality would just slip away as I was reading it. The story was written in a serious tone highlighted with humor throughout and a smattering of romance. There was not a whole lot of character development in a deep inner sight sense. The book was like a excellent action flick. Once event leading to the next in a loud beautiful bang... I enjoyed the book so much, that I have put all of Coont's books on my TBR list, he's that good.
    • 4/5
      When Rip Cantrell, an engineering student working the summer as a seismicsurvey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in thedistance, he investigates -- and finds a piece of metal apparently entombedin the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flyingsaucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years. Their discoverydoesn't remain a secret for long. The U.S. Air Force sends a UFOinvestigation team, which arrives just minutes before a team of mercenariessent by an Australian billionaire to steal the saucer's secrets. Beforeeither side can outwit the other, the Libyan military appears. Meanwhile,Rip has been checking out the saucer. With the help of a beautiful ex-AirForce test pilot, Charley Pine, Rip flies the saucer away, embarking on afantastic journey into space and around the world, keeping just ahead ofthose who want the saucer for themselves, and touching off a world-wide UFOsighting frenzy.This isn't my usual type of book, but it was a very quick little read andquite entertaining. Mostly dialogue and short paragraphs, the book didn'tlast long or go too deeply into character development, but it wasthought-provoking and I enjoyed it. A nice way to spend a summer afternoonand evening. 3.5
    • 3/5
      Protagonist: Rip Cantrell, a 22-year-old with a prodigious appetite and a remarkably level headSetting: present-day Sahara Desert, Australia and MissouriSeries: #1First Line: Rip Cantrell was holding the stadia rod, trying to blink away the sweat trickling into his eyes, when a bright flash of light caught his eye.Some researchers find an ancient flying saucer in the Sahara desert, the U.S. air force becomes involved, then an Australian multibillionaire takes the craft. The original finder of the saucer, 22-year-old Rip Cantrell,takes offense at this and vows to get the saucer back. It's his. A ½ cup of excitement, a ¼ teaspoon of romance, a ¼ cup of technical lingo and a cup of satire make a fine recipe for a book that's just plain fun. Yes, the characters are a bit flat and credulity gets stretched a mite here and there, but like I said, this book is fun to read. Coonts wrote the further adventures of Rip Cantrell, and I may just have to check them out!
    • 3/5
      the story is well composed and keeps one turning the pages, BUT, and it's a big but, so does Victor Appleton's Tom Swift series and that is what this reminds me of. "Rip" Cantrell and "Charlie" (a girl) meet after Rip has uncovered a saucer made of unidentifiable metal in the Sahara Desert. When Quadaffi's gunsmen come they get in the saucer and Charlie, a certified test pilot, flies it away. the rest of the book is spent trying to keep the saucer and its mysteries away from several nations, including the good ole military, and a crazed Australian trillionaire who will stop at nothing to own and sell the saucer. Naturally, 20-year-old Rip and 30-year-old Charlie win over all these men, and fight their automatic machine guns, army tanks, and missiles to come out victorious. They win victory with the help of Egg, Rip's benevolent genius uncle, who holds 25 patents and farms in Missouri. Yes, Captain America wins his Lois Lane and finally the saucer is turned over free to the U.S. Space and Air Museum when another uncle pops out of the woodwork and files suit against the President of the United States and the Chief of the US Air Force to claim ownership for Rip Cantrell. Said uncle being a smalltime attorney who carries the case immediately before the U.S. Supreme Court. At the end, despite being knifed, having ribs and other body bones broken, and being shot at by scores of people (who obviously missed every time, Rip gains victory and Charlie. Of course, he never has to work again because his genius Uncle has filed some 25 patents covering everything of the future technology located within the saucer, including, but not limited to, its hydrogen drive (it runs on water) anti-gravity device, basketball-sized nucelar reactor, and advanced computery that allows the pilot to "think" the ship to where he/she wants it to go. This all exists because the ship was built by our ancestors. Coontz conveniently blows away the theory of evolution and explains the Prime Nature of the Universe at the end. God Bless Him! Are you throwing up yet? There are so many imaginative leaps that anyone schooled in contemporary science couldn't make, the only person who could enjoy the book in any way is an open-minded, addled-brain idiot like me.
    • 3/5
      A find at the Outdoor Castle Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye. Had not been rained on (easy, since there hadn't been any rain for months, basically).A quick read, with an interesting premise (geologists find a UFO buried in sandstone in the Sahara, excavate it and are suddenly surrounded by Air Force, Australians and Lybians. What happens next?)Some weak points in the characterisations and the dialogue is sometimes a bit uneven. But still, an easy and interesting read.
    • 2/5
      Forgetable fast easy read. an Amazon reviewer summed it up when he said it reads like a juvenile.