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Outlanders #53
Infinity Breach
The oligarchy of Overlords battling to resurrect alien rule on Earth remains ever threatened by a group of rebels determined to meet the ancient Sumerian enemies with a show of force. While glimmers of containment, if not victory, have appeared, humanity still inhabits a world where buried secrets and impossible truths lie coiled in the shadows…
An Annunaki artifact of staggering multidimensional power is discovered, presaging an attack of a magnitude beyond anything the Cerberus rebels have ever encountered. In the secret Arctic laboratory of a brilliant twentieth-century adventurer, a pulsating alien dagger rips a portal deep into time and space. Emerging from the breach, breathtaking beings of Light appear like antibodies to close the rupture. But these wondrous Angels have their own solution to healing the infinity breach—the complete eradication of mankind.
An Annunaki artifact of staggering multidimensional power is discovered, presaging an attack of a magnitude beyond anything the Cerberus rebels have ever encountered. In the secret Arctic laboratory of a brilliant twentieth-century adventurer, a pulsating alien dagger rips a portal deep into time and space. Emerging from the breach, breathtaking beings of Light appear like antibodies to close the rupture. But these wondrous Angels have their own solution to healing the infinity breach—the complete eradication of mankind.
320 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
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February 9, 2012
A hard drive of ancient military secrets, recovered in an earlier book “Death Cry”, leads Cerberus' A team to the secret Antarctic laboratory of legendary thirties adventurer and super-scientist Abraham Flagg. Here they battle a rival squad of mercenaries, before facing a far worse threat from outside reality itself.
The latest adventure for Kane, Grant and Bridgit occurs almost in real time and features two extended firefights, with only a few hours breathing space inbetween them. This breathless storytelling is peppered with flashbacks to the thirties, and the larger than life adventures of Abraham Flagg, a very well imagined pastiche of Doc Savage. James Axler has enormous fun creating the mythology of Flagg, with excerpts from all kinds of outlandish stories, not to mention describing Flagg's own superhuman abilities which almost enter parody.
But the three regulars are not neglected either, especially since the whole story takes place on location and focuses on their teamwork and comradeship. They are compared and contrasted with the members of the opposing Millennium Consortium squad, amongst whom are a couple of sympathetic characters, rather than being portrayed as simple villains.
In the second half of the book a new set of strange characters are introduced. Without giving too much away, these people and their alien viewpoint enliven the novel and present an original threat.
In all it's a well written escapist yarn. An excellent heir and tribute to the pulp adventures of the past.
The latest adventure for Kane, Grant and Bridgit occurs almost in real time and features two extended firefights, with only a few hours breathing space inbetween them. This breathless storytelling is peppered with flashbacks to the thirties, and the larger than life adventures of Abraham Flagg, a very well imagined pastiche of Doc Savage. James Axler has enormous fun creating the mythology of Flagg, with excerpts from all kinds of outlandish stories, not to mention describing Flagg's own superhuman abilities which almost enter parody.
But the three regulars are not neglected either, especially since the whole story takes place on location and focuses on their teamwork and comradeship. They are compared and contrasted with the members of the opposing Millennium Consortium squad, amongst whom are a couple of sympathetic characters, rather than being portrayed as simple villains.
In the second half of the book a new set of strange characters are introduced. Without giving too much away, these people and their alien viewpoint enliven the novel and present an original threat.
In all it's a well written escapist yarn. An excellent heir and tribute to the pulp adventures of the past.
July 3, 2010
This was a lot of fun! The Outlanders is an endless series of adventures books, all formulaic volumes ghost-written under a house name. This one is quite different and stands high among the rest. It features the three main characters from the series without their support characters and settings and frameworks, and introduces a Doc Savage-like pulp hero who's been frozen for hundreds of years until they thaw him out to save the day. There are several fun flashbacks to pulpish adventures, and the whole thing is presented in a fun and engaging style. A great summer afternoon read.
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