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Alien Hunter #3
Alien Hunter: The White House
Alien Hunter: The White House is the electrifying third installment in Whitley Strieber's Alien Hunter series
The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests, and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us.
Flynn Carroll knows that the aliens are a race of brilliance and extraordinary cruelty. And he knows that they have found a way to eliminate humanity: capture the mind of the president of the United States. Control him, and you control the most powerful man in the world.
Though Carroll is determined to stop the aliens from achieving their goal, the president remains ignorant of the danger that he and the rest of the planet are in. With doomsday coming ever closer, Carroll might be the only hope for the survival of the human race.
The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests, and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us.
Flynn Carroll knows that the aliens are a race of brilliance and extraordinary cruelty. And he knows that they have found a way to eliminate humanity: capture the mind of the president of the United States. Control him, and you control the most powerful man in the world.
Though Carroll is determined to stop the aliens from achieving their goal, the president remains ignorant of the danger that he and the rest of the planet are in. With doomsday coming ever closer, Carroll might be the only hope for the survival of the human race.
288 pages, Hardcover
First published April 12, 2016
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About the author
Whitley Strieber
152 books1,260 followersAmerican writer best known for his novels The Wolfen,The Hunger and Warday and for Communion, a non-fiction description of his experiences with apparent alien contact. He has recently made significant advances in understanding this phenomenon, and has published his new discoveries in Solving the Communion Enigma.
Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the blockbuster film about sudden climate change, The Day After Tomorrow.
His book The Afterlife Revolution written with his deceased wife Anne, is a record of what is considered to be one of the most powerful instances of afterlife communication ever recorded.
Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the blockbuster film about sudden climate change, The Day After Tomorrow.
His book The Afterlife Revolution written with his deceased wife Anne, is a record of what is considered to be one of the most powerful instances of afterlife communication ever recorded.
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June 30, 2017
You know what you’re getting with UFOlogist, paranormal expert and conspiracy theorist Whitley Strieber’s Alien Hunter series: The nearly superhuman protagonist Flynn Carroll and his continuing war against the bad guys from another planet. “Alien Hunter: The White House” (Tor, $25.99, 286 pages) serves up plenty of willing suspense of disbelief, a cynical view of what us normal folk believe and a wheels-within-wheels plot that requires Carroll to outthink, outfight and outlast a host of enemies, human and otherwise.
Strieber is a professional writer, and the pages turn, and in book three, even Carroll is starting to wonder how he does what he does and why he has escaped so many situations that looked like certain death. If Strieber is actually going to go after that angle, it could elevate the Alien Hunter series above its present status as just one more action hero looking for a movie deal – but even as is, readers will get what they pay for.
Strieber is a professional writer, and the pages turn, and in book three, even Carroll is starting to wonder how he does what he does and why he has escaped so many situations that looked like certain death. If Strieber is actually going to go after that angle, it could elevate the Alien Hunter series above its present status as just one more action hero looking for a movie deal – but even as is, readers will get what they pay for.
August 19, 2021
Alien Duncer
The world is in peril! Our enemy is anywhere and everywhere! In our streets, in our homes and in our minds! How will we stop such an omnipotent foe, such an overwhelming force of evil from beyond the stars? Well, as it turns out, all you need is a obnoxiously large does of MA-MA-MACHISMO!--- and a tin foil hat.
“Alien Hunter: The White House,” starts out interestingly enough. Like any good mystery it begins with a seemingly impossible crime. In this case, a murder at the most secure building on earth---the White House. Unfortunately what follows is a tale riddled with plot holes and absurdities that requires a suspension of disbelief that is simply beyond belief. The situations that our protagonists have thrown at them are so great and insurmountable that you never buy their ludicrously laughable escapes from death, and worser still, your likely to be actively rooting against them.
Our main character, Flynn Carroll, is an insufferable, arrogant, miserable excuse for a hero. He only ever looks good by comparison to everyone else who are somehow more incompetent and unlikable than he is. He is constantly letting people die and suffer around him, all the while talking about how righteously awesome he is to his fan club of one---himself. This character, a rich, sullen, mortal, who prowls the street at night on a quest for vengeance, with god like detective and deduction skills, is so unlikable that I fond myself starting to actively dislike the character for whom he is inspired from--- The Batman. Now, I have to tell you, it is not everyday that you read a book that makes you actively dislike beloved characters from entirely separate works of fiction. That right there is just some true blue alien inception conspiracy balderdash if I've ever heard it--- so props to the author for that at least!
“Alien Hunter: The White House,” is just a startling poorly written and plotted book. Actively self-indulgent and border line masturbatory. And to be fair, all fiction, to one degree or another is wish fulfillment nonsense, but unless you are a white fifty year old right-winger who is horny for conspiracies and girls young enough to be your grandchildren, then your better off looking else where for your alien hunting kicks. May I be so bold as to suggest reddit and or facebook? Just be sure not to forget your tin foil hat.
The world is in peril! Our enemy is anywhere and everywhere! In our streets, in our homes and in our minds! How will we stop such an omnipotent foe, such an overwhelming force of evil from beyond the stars? Well, as it turns out, all you need is a obnoxiously large does of MA-MA-MACHISMO!--- and a tin foil hat.
“Alien Hunter: The White House,” starts out interestingly enough. Like any good mystery it begins with a seemingly impossible crime. In this case, a murder at the most secure building on earth---the White House. Unfortunately what follows is a tale riddled with plot holes and absurdities that requires a suspension of disbelief that is simply beyond belief. The situations that our protagonists have thrown at them are so great and insurmountable that you never buy their ludicrously laughable escapes from death, and worser still, your likely to be actively rooting against them.
Our main character, Flynn Carroll, is an insufferable, arrogant, miserable excuse for a hero. He only ever looks good by comparison to everyone else who are somehow more incompetent and unlikable than he is. He is constantly letting people die and suffer around him, all the while talking about how righteously awesome he is to his fan club of one---himself. This character, a rich, sullen, mortal, who prowls the street at night on a quest for vengeance, with god like detective and deduction skills, is so unlikable that I fond myself starting to actively dislike the character for whom he is inspired from--- The Batman. Now, I have to tell you, it is not everyday that you read a book that makes you actively dislike beloved characters from entirely separate works of fiction. That right there is just some true blue alien inception conspiracy balderdash if I've ever heard it--- so props to the author for that at least!
“Alien Hunter: The White House,” is just a startling poorly written and plotted book. Actively self-indulgent and border line masturbatory. And to be fair, all fiction, to one degree or another is wish fulfillment nonsense, but unless you are a white fifty year old right-winger who is horny for conspiracies and girls young enough to be your grandchildren, then your better off looking else where for your alien hunting kicks. May I be so bold as to suggest reddit and or facebook? Just be sure not to forget your tin foil hat.
September 4, 2019
Not for me!!
September 20, 2021
I liked the series but the torture scene was unnecessary and felt gratuitous
May 16, 2016
I made the mistake of starting with book #3 of this series. It would have been better if I had read the first book, then maybe the second.
This book relied too much on previous books and the reader's understanding of the background of our hero Flynn Carroll. I also found the "aliens" a bit too stupid. Our hero keeps reminding the reader that the aliens are very cunning and ever watchful. Hence, he tries to be extra careful with his modes of transportation. But he still thinks he can slip this surveyance by getting of of cars after a few blocks. That doesn't seem to add up. This is a strictly one person hero operation going on for the book. I don't find it all that credible, nor interesting enough to go back to the beginning to restart the series.
Have a GoodReads.
This book relied too much on previous books and the reader's understanding of the background of our hero Flynn Carroll. I also found the "aliens" a bit too stupid. Our hero keeps reminding the reader that the aliens are very cunning and ever watchful. Hence, he tries to be extra careful with his modes of transportation. But he still thinks he can slip this surveyance by getting of of cars after a few blocks. That doesn't seem to add up. This is a strictly one person hero operation going on for the book. I don't find it all that credible, nor interesting enough to go back to the beginning to restart the series.
Have a GoodReads.
July 28, 2016
This is a mix of something like a police procedural with science fiction. The police procedural was good: engaging characters, action packed and decent suspense. I wasn't a fan of the science fiction. The Aeon are an evil race that wants to kill all humanity and take over Earth. We don't know if they're from a place or a planet. We see their biorobots but not them. They can track a person in any vehicle, except a bus, and they can't track people directly. I get the fact that they are evil, but they are so amorphous, they might as well have been the bogeyman.
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August 11, 2016
I should probably go back and read the first two in this series again. I do remember that I really enjoyed the first one-it was terrifying but fun to read. I lost the thread of this plot, though, and need to go back. Perhaps a bit of review would help-I suspect these 3 books are all one, and they have just been split for publishing. Not helpful.
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