The Ziggurat of Doom: A Doc Vandal Adventure

Doc Vandal Adventures #6

by Dave Robinson

Ancient Aliens in Mesopotamia! When the Christmas ball they are attending is thrown into chaos by the attack of power-armored Nazis, Doc and the team find themselves thrown into an adventure that will rewrite everything they know about human origins. Everything leads to the Great Ziggurat of Ur, where a column of fire reaches all the way to space. Will they find the answer before the world is destroyed? Sharks in the desert, winged aliens, robot skeletons, and biblical spaceships! It's all there in the sixth Doc Vandal adventure--The Ziggurat of Doom!

189 pages, Hardcover

Published April 9, 2023

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Reviews

[Dale Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doc Vandal and crew have recently returned from a battle that raged against a cult that was determined to leave the earth behind but at the expense of all mankind. And following a hard fought battle, they party just as hard and so it is that the team accepts and invitation to the New York Consulate General of the United Kingdom's annual Christmas beckons as an opportunity to enjoy a few moments of downtime even if the political...and in Vic's case, personal...reasons are blatantly obvious. But Doc's and crew ability to find trouble rises again as strange invaders attack and attempt to take one of their own in what turns out to be a distraction for their real mission. A mission whose success finds the team joining a task force that will travel to a foreign land to face unknown enemies...unbreachable barriers...and "Gods" from ancient times whose plans will affect every being on the planet. And only Doc Vandal and his team have any hope of stopping the inevitable.

After a two-year hiatus, Author Dave Robinson returns with the SIXTH entry in the DOC VANDAL series. During that time the world has endured much seeing a world-wide pandemic as well as a global economic inflation. Robinson's love of the old pulps as well as modern pop culture is reflected time and time again in the ingredients and elements that he twists and twines into creating the story threads that he spins into the ongoing DOC stories. He continues the time-tested tropes of the ultimately superior, yet emotionally lacking, leader in Doc who is complimented by the strengths and humanities of those such as Vic, Ming, Gus, and others who make up the entirety of the team. In this story though, Robinson introduces a new element that has the benefit of humanizing and adding new emotional depth to Vandal. Having said that, I'll leave it up to the readers to discover on their own, but the foreshadowing of future changes are sown and hopefully will be reaped in upcoming adventures.

Welcome back Dave...You've been missed.

[Mark Phillips · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doc and team battle ancient aliens who once uplifted humans to be a slave race. As Sumerian gods, they exploited humans for the resources necessary to save their hyperspatial homeworld, and now they are back from a period of hibernation to resume their depredations from behind a force field enclosing Iraq.

Think Stargate, combined with the Harryhausen stop-motion skeletons from Jason & the Argonauts, mixed with the flying aircraft carrier from Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.