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J.D. Stanton #2
Vanished
What sinister secret lies hidden in the town of Roanoke II? How did the entire population of this desert military instillation simply disappear? High-level Pentagon orders call J. D. Stanton, retired navy captain, back to active duty to investigate. Heading a crack team of military, government, and scientific experts, Stanton faces a bewildering scenario. Food still on dinner plates, gas nozzles still in the fuel ports of cars at the filling station . . . Whatever happened took the people of Roanoke II completely by surprise. But took them where? The answer -- far beyond what Stanton could conceive in his wildest dreams -- carries a steep price. For forces higher than the Pentagon are invested in the top-secret research of Roanoke II. And they'll protect it ruthlessly. Caught with his team between trained paramilitary killers and an unearthly and deadly enigma, Stanton faces a choice that will stretch his Christian faith to the limits. It could supply answers to the mystery of Roanoke II . . . Or unfathomable and irrevocable horrors.
368 pages, Paperback
First published December 21, 1999
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Alton Gansky
74 books121 followersAlton Gansky is the author of 30 books--24 of them novels, including the Angel Award winner Terminal Justice and Christy Award finalist A Ship Possessed. A frequent speaker at writing conferences, he holds a BA and MA degrees in biblical studies. Alton and his wife reside in Southern California.
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December 19, 2018
All the people at a top secret military base have vanished. Admiral Stanton investigates, despite the interference of bureaucrats. What he finds shakes him to the core.
Pretty good. The descriptions of other incidents of vanishing are actually the best bits of the book.
Pretty good. The descriptions of other incidents of vanishing are actually the best bits of the book.
October 16, 2018
Commandant Stanton wordt naar een woestijnstadje gestuurd om daar de verdwijning van de complete bevolking te onderzoeken. Van de een op andere dag verdwenen 1500 mensen. Op de radar was het enige dat men waarnam drie ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten. Het Pentagon vraagt Stanton dit uit te zoeken voordat het bekend wordt. Hij krijgt hierbij hulp van een team bestaande uit wetenschappers, militairen en politieke experts. Als de groep in een zwaar bewapend pand binnendringt, blijkt dat het Pentagon toch nog een spel speelt. De tijd dringt voor Stanton en zijn mensen, want een antwoord moet worden gevonden voordat zij worden gevonden.
Dit is de eerste keer dat ik een boek van Alton Gansky lees en wat kan die man schrijven. Het is niet moeilijk om te lezen, het verhaal houd je vast en houd je bezig. Een ongewoon verhaal met een aparte wending. De hoofdrolspelers leer je kennen en je leeft mee. Dit is een auteur waarvan ik wel wat meer wil lezen.
Dit is de eerste keer dat ik een boek van Alton Gansky lees en wat kan die man schrijven. Het is niet moeilijk om te lezen, het verhaal houd je vast en houd je bezig. Een ongewoon verhaal met een aparte wending. De hoofdrolspelers leer je kennen en je leeft mee. Dit is een auteur waarvan ik wel wat meer wil lezen.
October 10, 2010
Another good book from Alton Gansky. This is an older one, and the first J.D. Stanton book that I've read by Gansky. It's the second in the Stanton series, but stands fine on it's own.
Gansky writes "Christian" novels. That is, one or more of his characters are believers. He does not write the standard Christian novel where a normal person has to deal with something and ends up doing it by relying on prayer or faith, or where a normal person comes to Christ through the events of the novel.
Those things may happen in his stories, but there is much more to them. They read like a Cussler novel, or less convoluted Clancy novel, just with Christians as characters. There's action, violence, blood, bad guys, and plenty of non-Christians.
My favorite part of Gansky's writing though? At least in some of his novels, he goes way deeper, or farther out onto the fringe, of Christian thinking than your "normal" Christian novel does.
Crisis of faith? Sure, in many Christian novels. Characters praying or quoting the Bible? Sure, in most Christian novels. Explanations of higher dimensions, disappearing people, what exactly Sheol and Tartarus might be, strange lights in the sky, possession, fallen angels appearing as extraterrestrials? You won't see many mainstream Christian novels doing that.
Gansky goes there. And he does it well. (Some of those things are from some of his other novels, not necessarily Vanished.)
Vanished has Navy Captain J.D. Stanton investigating the disappearance of the entire population of a city surrounding a secret military research facility. The president's advisor advocates killing everyone on Stanton's team before the secret of the research becomes public, and sends in a black-ops team with intel convincing them that Stanton and his team are in reality terrorists.
Stanton's investigations of the missing people take him underground into the secret lab where he finds an open portal into other dimensions.
As the black-ops team closes in on him, Stanton needs to find a way to escape the underground cavern and survive the battle.
Gansky writes "Christian" novels. That is, one or more of his characters are believers. He does not write the standard Christian novel where a normal person has to deal with something and ends up doing it by relying on prayer or faith, or where a normal person comes to Christ through the events of the novel.
Those things may happen in his stories, but there is much more to them. They read like a Cussler novel, or less convoluted Clancy novel, just with Christians as characters. There's action, violence, blood, bad guys, and plenty of non-Christians.
My favorite part of Gansky's writing though? At least in some of his novels, he goes way deeper, or farther out onto the fringe, of Christian thinking than your "normal" Christian novel does.
Crisis of faith? Sure, in many Christian novels. Characters praying or quoting the Bible? Sure, in most Christian novels. Explanations of higher dimensions, disappearing people, what exactly Sheol and Tartarus might be, strange lights in the sky, possession, fallen angels appearing as extraterrestrials? You won't see many mainstream Christian novels doing that.
Gansky goes there. And he does it well. (Some of those things are from some of his other novels, not necessarily Vanished.)
Vanished has Navy Captain J.D. Stanton investigating the disappearance of the entire population of a city surrounding a secret military research facility. The president's advisor advocates killing everyone on Stanton's team before the secret of the research becomes public, and sends in a black-ops team with intel convincing them that Stanton and his team are in reality terrorists.
Stanton's investigations of the missing people take him underground into the secret lab where he finds an open portal into other dimensions.
As the black-ops team closes in on him, Stanton needs to find a way to escape the underground cavern and survive the battle.
March 3, 2009
A Christian Science Fiction mystery about portals to other dimmensions, and people disappearing into them, government coverups, men in black, etc, all with a Christian angle.
January 10, 2013
A great combination of sci-fi and Christianity. Loved it!
November 11, 2018
I have read other books by Alton Gansky and I can honestly say he is my favorite Christian writer! I have not read any of his books that I did not like. I especially like the ones with J.D. Stanton. Gansky has a way of writing to keep you engrossed in the story from cover to cover! Love them!
"Vanished" is another J.D. Stanton Mysteries that finds our Naval Captain trying to uncover the mystery behind the vanishing of an entire town of people. This story takes Stanton places he never dreamed he would go.
If you love books about the military, mysteries, Christianity, with some thriller...this book is for you!
"Vanished" is another J.D. Stanton Mysteries that finds our Naval Captain trying to uncover the mystery behind the vanishing of an entire town of people. This story takes Stanton places he never dreamed he would go.
If you love books about the military, mysteries, Christianity, with some thriller...this book is for you!
July 15, 2020
Vanished is Book 2 of the J.D. Stanton series. If you remember from your American history, the colony of Roanoke, Virginia disappeared. No one knows how or why. In this book a military town aptly named Roanoke II suddenly disappears. The Pentagon calls in retired Naval Captain J.D. Stanton to head a committee to find out how a whole town could disappear. Loved this book!
March 18, 2020
A bit of a mystery, this book gives the reader a bit to think about. I couldn't generically recommend it though, because it was written from a religious perspective and one I don't agree with. All other elements were unspectacular but inoffensive.
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November 10, 2023Read this a while ago, but enjoyed it so much have kept a copy to re-read.
April 7, 2024
An interesting read. Couldn’t really picture all that was happening but understood enough.
January 2, 2018
This book started slow, and at one point I thought about abandoning it. Around the halfway point it picked up considerably, and the only reason I finished it today instead of yesterday is that I got too tired to keep reading. Really fascinating ideas in the second half of the book, which I won't go into so I don't spoil anything. If you liked A Ship Possessed, this one is worth a read.
January 26, 2016
Another great book. I didn't want to stop reading.
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