Comments
Generally well-written with reasonably developed
original characters which helps to overcome the predictable
storyline. The mystery of 'Who is the
Alien Swordmaster?' is solvable as soon as he makes his first
appearance. Most of the novel takes
place in Tokyo after the First Invasion.
Major Plot Points
Memorable Moments
pp. 70-71 (Matt rushes to rescue his colleague
Anne from a Visitor attack)
"The door was finally cracking now.
There had been some kind of bolt jamming it... it fell off now and skidded
onto the pavement... Matt saw that it was some device he'd never seen before...
of Alien manufacture maybe. Silvery and circular. Some of that
lizard super-technology! He didn't have time to reflect on it.
He cried out, 'We're coming, Anne! Just hold them off for another
second --' and ran out.
Anne looked up. For a split second she
was defenceless --
Then he heard it. A whirring, whining
sound, like a distant flute. And saw it slice the air: a whirling
thing of blades, dazzling in the afternoon sun... soaring in a perfect
arc, utterly beautiful, utterly deadly. 'No!' he shouted.
And ran unthinking straight towards her...
as the throwing star ripped into Anne's neck... a splatter of blood on
the window of Po Sam's door... It's my fault, he thought, if only I hadn't
called to her, attracted her attention --"
The Back of the Book ...
Live by the Laser - Die by the Sword!
High above a ravaged Tokyo, deep within the
Visitor Mother Ship, the Japanese-American anthropologist,
Tomoko Jones, is being revived from suspension
- to become the consort of the fearsome Fieh Chan, Visitor
Commander of Tokyo.
Meanwhile, her husband, resistance fighter
and ninjitsu expert Matt Jones, has stumbled on a Visitor plot to
kidnap the Earth's martial arts grand masters
for conversion.
All clues point to Tokyo, and Matt leads a
strike force to rescue the grand masters, aided by Kenzo Sugihara,
a swordmaster of dazzling gifts who saves
the Americans' lives more than once.
Who is this man of mystery?
The fates of Matt, Tomoko, and the whole resistance
may be tied to the true identity of ... The Alien Swordmaster.
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