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A Gift from the Gods
How do you fight the enemy within, when you don’t know that the enemy exists?
This is the problem facing the USA in 1985 as a Nazi cell, dormant for decades, waiting patiently for its moment to strike, conspires to forge a new Fourth Reich out of the ashes of the old. Fifty years earlier, in 1935, alien technology is recovered from a crashed UFO in the Black Forest, and is developed by a team of German scientists, overseen by psychopathic Waffen-SS officer, Hauptsturmführer Gustav von Brandt. What evil plot does this Nazi cell intend to deploy? And what is the alien technology which will help them achieve their ambition?
This Science Fiction thriller is a rollercoaster ride of intrigue and deception involving Aliens, Gods, Dinosaurs, Nazis, the CIA and the Mafia. And in a highly original story spanning nearly three hundred million years that culminates in an explosive climax, who would believe that the key to the destiny of our planet would be in the hands of a painfully shy, socially awkward teenage boy?
With a fast pace and a collection of narratives that ‘travel’ from one time to the next, this novel will be a compulsive read for anyone interested in Science Fiction and Spy thrillers.
This is the problem facing the USA in 1985 as a Nazi cell, dormant for decades, waiting patiently for its moment to strike, conspires to forge a new Fourth Reich out of the ashes of the old. Fifty years earlier, in 1935, alien technology is recovered from a crashed UFO in the Black Forest, and is developed by a team of German scientists, overseen by psychopathic Waffen-SS officer, Hauptsturmführer Gustav von Brandt. What evil plot does this Nazi cell intend to deploy? And what is the alien technology which will help them achieve their ambition?
This Science Fiction thriller is a rollercoaster ride of intrigue and deception involving Aliens, Gods, Dinosaurs, Nazis, the CIA and the Mafia. And in a highly original story spanning nearly three hundred million years that culminates in an explosive climax, who would believe that the key to the destiny of our planet would be in the hands of a painfully shy, socially awkward teenage boy?
With a fast pace and a collection of narratives that ‘travel’ from one time to the next, this novel will be a compulsive read for anyone interested in Science Fiction and Spy thrillers.
336 pages, Paperback
Published November 28, 2018
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February 1, 2019
Guilty Pleasure
Something that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.
I'm still laughing.
UFO's, aliens, time travel, dinosaurs, and saving the best for last Adolph Hitler!
Wow! What?! Hello?! Did you say Nazis?!
I can't believe i'm saying this but this was a good book.
Well written, fast paced, at times silly, and at times very dark and disturbing.
The back story of SS officer Gustav von Brandt was well done and disturbing. It was interesting seeing what turned him into a sociopath.
Only 178 pages on my kindle.
P.S. Egyptian goddess Isis and her brother Set make a brief cameo but play a major part in the story.
Something that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.
I'm still laughing.
UFO's, aliens, time travel, dinosaurs, and saving the best for last Adolph Hitler!
Wow! What?! Hello?! Did you say Nazis?!
I can't believe i'm saying this but this was a good book.
Well written, fast paced, at times silly, and at times very dark and disturbing.
The back story of SS officer Gustav von Brandt was well done and disturbing. It was interesting seeing what turned him into a sociopath.
Only 178 pages on my kindle.
P.S. Egyptian goddess Isis and her brother Set make a brief cameo but play a major part in the story.
December 24, 2019
(See all of my Book Reviews) - “A Gift From the Gods” eBook was published in 2018 and was written by Marin Gunn. Mr. Gunn had published two books.
I received an ARC of this novel through https://www.netgalley.com in return for a fair and honest review. I categorize this novel as ‘R’ because it contains scenes of Violnce, Mature Language, and Mature Situations. The story is set in an alternative universe. In this aberration of the timeline a ‘god’ nudges the spacecraft of an alien race out of control so that it will crash where Nazi Germany can find it.
That begins a technological growth by the Germans. While the Third Reich still fails in this timeline, the technology gleaned from the crashed spacecraft in 1935 allows the Nazis to rise again 50 years later in an attempt to establish the Fourth Reich.
The exploitation of the alien technology is being overseen by Waffen-SS officer, Hauptsturmführer Gustav von Brandt. He will let nothing stand in the way of the Reich. The story takes the reader from Germany, to South America, and to the United States. While the Nazis go dormant after WWII they are far from dead. Now with alien tech they again begin their effort to dominate the world. Only one CIA officer is standing in their way.
I thoroughly enjoyed the 5.5 hours I spent reading this 338-page science fiction thriller. This was a little different for a science fiction story with the alternative history slant to it. Overall I thought the story was pretty good. I am not fond of the selected cover art. It reminds me more of a horror novel than a science fiction thriller. I give this novel a 4.4 (rounded down to a 4) out of 5.
Further book reviews I have written can be accessed at https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/blog/.
I received an ARC of this novel through https://www.netgalley.com in return for a fair and honest review. I categorize this novel as ‘R’ because it contains scenes of Violnce, Mature Language, and Mature Situations. The story is set in an alternative universe. In this aberration of the timeline a ‘god’ nudges the spacecraft of an alien race out of control so that it will crash where Nazi Germany can find it.
That begins a technological growth by the Germans. While the Third Reich still fails in this timeline, the technology gleaned from the crashed spacecraft in 1935 allows the Nazis to rise again 50 years later in an attempt to establish the Fourth Reich.
The exploitation of the alien technology is being overseen by Waffen-SS officer, Hauptsturmführer Gustav von Brandt. He will let nothing stand in the way of the Reich. The story takes the reader from Germany, to South America, and to the United States. While the Nazis go dormant after WWII they are far from dead. Now with alien tech they again begin their effort to dominate the world. Only one CIA officer is standing in their way.
I thoroughly enjoyed the 5.5 hours I spent reading this 338-page science fiction thriller. This was a little different for a science fiction story with the alternative history slant to it. Overall I thought the story was pretty good. I am not fond of the selected cover art. It reminds me more of a horror novel than a science fiction thriller. I give this novel a 4.4 (rounded down to a 4) out of 5.
Further book reviews I have written can be accessed at https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/blog/.
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