Taken Author:Thomas H. Cook Three people know the truth. — Three families will be changed forever. — In the last days of World War II, a strange phenomenon saves a doomed Air Force pilot named Russell Keys--and plunges him into torment. In a place called Roswell, New Mexico, a man named Owen Crawford is drawn to a bizarre crash site in the desert, and into a government cover... more »-up. And in a remote Texas town, a lonely woman named Sally Clarke finds a stranger hiding in her barn, and reaches out to touch him?
This epic novel, based on the gripping ten-part SCI FI Channel? miniseries from DreamWorks Television, spans sixty years of American history...as the lives of three people are changed in an instant--and the consequences are played out over three generations of harrowing encounters and unexplained events. While the government lies, and a nation doubts, three families know they have been touched, know that something has been taken from them...something that will change their lives forever.« less
Novelization of the TV series by the same name. Never saw the series, so I can't compare it to the book. If you dig alien conspiracy theory stuff, you will probably enjoy this as a light read.
I've only just started this book, barely 50 pages into it, and already I feel "taken"... by the author and publisher who made it.
First, they can't even get the names straight. On the back of the book they give a brief blurb about the story, and they name three of the characters, Randall Keys, Owen Jones, and Sally Marsh. Unfortunately, those character names aren't actually in the story. Instead we have Russell Keys (not Randall), Owen Crawford (not Jones) and Sally Clarke (not Marsh). Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!
Also, I've already found a couple of anachronisms in the story, such as plastic car models supposedly built from kits in the 1930's (not invented yet) and a reference to White Sands as an air base by a pair of nuns (it was top secret at the time, and was never used as an air base, it's a missile and rocket test range)and one character who, in very early July of 1947 recounts how he's been told stories about "flying saucers" all his life, a term that wasn't even coined until the week before that.
I'm simply not impressed with this book and I'm going to just repost it without finishing it.
