Publishing Information
Author: Geo. W. Proctor
Publisher: Pinnacle Books, Inc., 1430
Broadway, New York, NY 10018
ISBN: 0-523-42429-9
Canadian ISBN: 0-523-43417-0
Copyright: 1985, Warner Bros., Inc.
Comments
Very well written; one of the best in the
series. Both humans and Visitors are rendered realistically, and
the plot is both concise and interesting. Even minor characters are
more detailed than is sometimes seen of the major players in the other
V novels!
Major Plot Points
Memorable Moments
p. 92 Sam, Janus, and Jennifer escape
from the Chicago Mothership
In horror he watched the woman fall down the
shaft.
The terror twisting his face abruptly washed
away in a wide grin. Jennifer didn't fall; she floated. In
her sky diver's position, the hurricane rush of air was almost a
complete counterforce to her weight. Instead of plummeting to her
death, she sank slowly down the shaft to gently alight on the pumps below...
"Sam, I cannot ..." Janus's face was white
as a sheet, his eyes saucer wide.
"Yes, you can!" Walker shouted. "It's
the only way ... You'll do it even if I have to push you!"
Arm about his friend's waist, Walker tugged
Janus to the gaping mouth of the shaft. "Now raise your arms
and spread your legs!"
While the old man complied, Walker gave his
back a nudge. Janus fell forward. Curses minutely detailing
the younger man's parental relationship to a female dog, his preferred
sexual partners, and the eternal destination of his soul yowled
up the shaft while Janus floated down to land on the pipes.
p. 170 The Resistance prepares for their
final confrontation with the Visitors
There were no professionals here. Chicago's
police had their hands full keeping their postwar city from exploding.
In spite of the increased food and medical supplies, there were still shortages.
Riots were a common daily and nightly occurrence. Except for
three helicopters which would be sent in as air support five minutes
after the attack began, the police had left Gerald and his force to
Paul Nordine.
The black-clad warriors crouched here were
ordinary people who refused to see their planet sucked dry by alien
invaders. Without question they had answered Paul's call to arms.
They came to fight an enemy that they had been reassured had been
driven from the face of their world forever.
The Back of the Book...
A Red Cloak is Falling over Chicago...
The resistance fighters' armada of small aircraft
dots the sky. Behind each one streams a red contrail of
Visitor-fatal toxin - certain death to the
aliens.
But there is one alien leader who will not
run and hide in the vast darkness of space - one ruthless Visitor
with a plan to "convert" the resistance and
win back the Earth.
Meanwhile, in the city below, a man and a woman
who found refuge, and each other, on the bleak edge of
the battlefield, are about to risk their lives
and their love to stop the deadly consequences of ... The Chicago
Conversion.
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