David L. Coleman, Event

Event

David L. Coleman

Dunne, Sep 2006, $23.95

ISBN: 0312353413

In July 1947, seventy-six miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, a truck convoy delivers special cargo to a remote safe place in Nevada. Men in Black take charge of the operation killing the military and scientists at the scene with the simple rationale that "controlled violence" is needed to counter the enemy. No evidence is left behind as even the blood washes away amidst the cooperating desert sand and everything else is carted away. However this is the second phase of what has become known as the Roswell Incident.

In the present in the cradle of the Roswell Incident, another apparent crash occurs, but this time two beings survive unlike the five decade old earlier incident. One is a tiny intelligent alien wanting to keep mankind safe from the other, a killing machine beast whose function is to eradicate mankind. While the Men in Black want to annihilate the helpful alien and control the savage to use as a weapon of mass destruction, the top secret federal government Event Group led by Major Jack Collins tries to stop the rampaging beast. These two agencies with differing views of America and the world will battle one another as much as they skirmish with the extraterrestrials.

Action, action, and more action are what the exhilarating EVENT is all about as readers will need seatbelts with this faster than light thriller. The story line combines several well used premises like the good and bad aliens with secret government agencies to spin a fun conspiracy tale. Though the cast is never fully developed, readers will not care as the MIB vs. the Event superheavyweight contender battle to see who will take on the champion from outer space.

Harriet Klausner