Publishing Information
Author: Howard Weinstein
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.,
49 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10010
ISBN: 0-812-55725-5
Canadian ISBN: 0-812-55726-3
Copyright: 1987, Warner Bros., Inc.
Comments
A sequel of sorts to Weinstein and A.C. Crispin's
novel, "East Coast Crisis". This book finds the Resistance
members from that work carrying on their fight
against Visitor domination. The novel takes place during the
Second Invasion, and once again some of our
familiar L.A. Resistance members (this time Juliet and Elizabeth)
make a brief appearance. The "weather
pattern" plot doesn't really work, but the oil plot works a little better.
A certain character's duplicity is rather
obvious from the get-go.
Major Plot Points
Memorable Moments
pp. 17-18 Presidential advisors discuss
the influx of refugees to New York
But the faces of refugees never seemed to
change from war to war, earthquake to earthquake, famine to famine.
African, European, Asian, or American, it didn't matter. Draper had
seen photos of earlier times and witnessed similar human suffering
in person in various parts of the world. Never before had war forced
Americans to flee their homes, and it shook him to find that citizens
of the most powerful nation in the history of the planet could be
reduced to this, faces shadowed by grief and fear.
We're not immune, he thought.
"Where do they all go?" Stuart Hart asked,
serious now.
Cynthia flexed her leg. "The lucky ones
have relatives or friends in the area and stay with them."
"What about the unlucky ones?"
"Haven't you seen the billboards and TV commercials?
'Take in a friend - then make room for a stranger'?"
... "I'm from New York," Cynthia boasted,
"and we're pretty good at coming through when the chips are
down."
p.108 Hannah reassures the Resistance
members
"But Diana is a scientist," Neville
pointed out.
"With a rather military frame of mind," Hannah
countered.
"What makes you so sure?" asked Peter.
"Because they've been so busy conducting a
military war they haven't taken the time to properly explore this
planet. What they know about Earth they've picked up on the run,
a litter here and there as they've needed it. If we could
sneak a peak at their Encyclopaedia Terra, we'd probably find so
many gaping holes in basic
knowledge we'd fall down laughing."
pp. 142-143 The L.A. and New York Resistance
make a trade
"Oh, there's something else." Julie
reached into her shirt pocket. "Here - these are the latest medical
codes the Visitors are using."
"From your friendly fifth columnist?" asked
Pete.
"Yeah. He's a medical student.
Nice kid. Name's Howie. Well, thanks for the supplies."
"Our pleasure," Lauren said. "It must
be tough being in a war-zone area. Sometimes, back in the relative
safety of New York, we forget what you must be going through."
Pete snapped his fingers. "Oh, yeah.
We threw in a little surprise."
Julie's eyebrows arched. "Oh?"
Lauren smirked. "I figured a freedom
fighter doesn't have the time to sit around getting fat - looks like
you two don't have to worry about that - so we dug up some chocolate
for you."
"Hallelujah!" Julie crowed, arms uplifted.
"Do you know how long it's been since I tasted chocolate?"
"That's what we figured," Lauren laughed.
"Indulge."
The Back of the Book . . .
The Earth's Last Hope is Freezing Over...
The invading aliens - under the leadership
of their evil commander, Diana - undertake a two-pronged plan to
smash the resistance and force the surrender
of Earth. The first prong is Project Icewind, a scheme to alter the
world's weather and bring an early, crushing
winter. The second is the destruction of the world's oil - lifeblood
of the war effort and a freezing planet's
very survival.
But ex-baseball star Dr. Pete Forsythe and
diplomat Lauren Stewart are on to the alien plot - and with the
help of two top scientists an answer may be,
must be, found.
The race is on - from the icy North Atlantic
to the streets of New York to the parched sands of the Middle
East . . . the brave fighters of the resistance
are all that stand in the way of Visitor victory!
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