Aliens are coming!
A year after young engineering
student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in
the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of
the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who
believes that the saucer holds the key to an anti-aging drug formula
that space travelers would need to voyage between galaxies. But one of
his technicians, Adam Solo, an alien marooned on Earth for a thousand
years, steals the saucer, hoping to summon a starship to rescue him.
Unfortunately, the stolen saucer has damaged communications gear.
Solo goes to Rip Cantrell and his
partner, ex-Air Force test pilot Charlotte “Charley” Pine, and Rip's
uncle Egg, for help in summoning a starship. Meanwhile, as a terrified
world fearful of space invaders approaches meltdown, big pharma moguls
and their thugs are hot on the trail of the foursome.
In a world turned upside down, it
may be the arriving aliens who offer limitless possibilities. Rip and
Charley face an incredible decision: Do they dare leave the safety of
earth to travel into the great wilderness of the universe? Full of
UFO’s, futuristic technology, edge-of-your-seat flying scenes and
unforgettable characters, human and otherwise, Stephen Coonts' Savage Planet is classic storytelling at its best . . . and pure, unadulterated fun.