Book Review by Morgan Lee
"GRAY APOCALYPSE" by James Murdoch
Demand Publications ISBN: 978-0-9664430-9-7
Publication date: Spring 2009
Imagine the X-Files' ETs mating with humans, building an army, and controlling the heavens. Sounds like they are the gods of Greek mythology or angels of the Old Testament, doesn't it? And that's exactly how the aliens called "Breeders" view themselves. We see them through the mind of Michael Kendon, a renegade resistance fighter with paranormal powers: reading the thoughts of the master race and the healing power of his hands.
This novel will satisfy X-Philes, Zonies, Peaks Freaks, conspiracy theorists and science fiction lovers. It's a heart-pounding extra-exciting thriller with the best of the kinds of weirdness tossed about in the Twilight Zone, Tales from the Darkside, X-Files and all the other books, movies, and TV series of the paranormal and the really "out there" offerings. Murdoch spins out the tale, but the plot is never out of control, in a well-written extension of some of the mainline madness that entertained sci-fi and horror fans for the last 40 years.
GRAY APOCALYPSE is a horror story if gray-skinned, big-eyed, long-armed aliens in huge flying saucers give you pause. Or if you find the idea of breeding with such beings repulsive, or the notion of cloning nauseates you and brings up fear. The ultimate outsiders plot to destroy most humans with an engineered celestial event.
Non-stop action takes place in the American Southwest and on a promontory in Puerto Rico. It features two romances that develop in a tasteful fashion, with little sex, but much violence. While Kendon and his partner Laura evade the heavenly oppressors and their goons, another part of the solution to earthly devastation evolves at Cabo Rojo in southwestern Puerto Rico.
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There an alert astronomer, Eric Tepler, discovers the planet's impending doom and tries to notify the rest of the world, only to get caught up in the operation to avert the disaster. He connects with a local teacher Gabriela, whose family was also fated to become engaged in the pulse-pounding adventure. Murdoch nicely ties together the two subplots to reach a satisfying climax. The story has few wasted words or actions and moves along with magnificent pacing. A rollicking good roller-coaster of an adventure.
Murdoch and his book at his website, or writer to him at author@GrayApocalypse.com.
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JAMES MURDOCH is a professional investigator and freelance writer living in Normandy Park, Washington. An avid outdoorsman, he once observed a huge triangular craft over Lake Chelan in mountains of northern Washington state. It was late at night, and the object blotted out the stars as it passed overhead. Since then, Murdoch has actively investigated the UFO phenomenon. Gray Apocalypse, his first novel, was inspired by his research. Murdoch's website: www.grayapocalypse.com |
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Thanks Morgan for the review... John Wolf
