Saucer, Stephen Coonts
Saucer, Stephen Coonts
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Saucer

Author: Stephen Coonts

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

A relic from the past. A bridge to the future. Stephen Coonts's Saucer is a dazzling flying story and an action-filled look at what might have been...and what might be.After 140,000 Years...Seismic Surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery—a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone. Buried for eons, it's not the invention of modern man. Computer-equipped, it can't belong to ancient man. Rip's betting his life on the only alternative. If the ship's memory bank holds the proof he needs, it's going to rock civilization, and make Rip a very famous man.Its Time Has Come.Once the secret's out, Rip's outwitted by an enterprising billionaire set to steal the saucer's profitable technology-and outnumbered by the Libyan army looking to lay claim to history. But it's in a skeptical UFO investigation team that Rip finds an unlikely ally: test-pilot Charlotte Pine. Together, they come up with a plan to protect the saucer's secrets.But Where In The World Is It Going?Under a hail of bullets, in an exhaust of white fire, Rip and Charlotte are off. Accelerating on a fantastic journey across continents and oceans, they're about to experience the mystery of what once was, and explore the possibilities of what could be, on an adventure 140,000 years in the making.

About Stephen Coonts

This biography could be entitled, West Virginia Boy Becomes a Very Successful Author....... but that would be too obvious. Author, Stephen Coonts was born and raised in Buchanan, West Virginia, a small town of 6,000. He led the typical life of any boy growing up in the 50's and 60's.

He was born in 1946, and ended his childhood by graduating from West Virginia University with a degree in political science. As happens with many poli-sci grads, he had a law degree in mind, but first he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.

Coonts received his wings after completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft. After serving in the Vietnam War as an attack fighter, he served as a flight instructor, and did a tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. Upon leaving the Navy, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law. After receiving his law degree, he moved back to West Virginia to practice for a couple of years. But, his career took him back to Colorado where he specialized in oil and gas law.

Finally, in 1986, he published his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, which became a huge success, being on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover. Later, a movie by the same title was produced based on his novel, and was released nationally in 1991. All of his books have been published in several different countries.

Currently, Coonts lives in Colorado with his third wife, Deborah, He continues to write novels from Colorado.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by James on 2008-11-11 17:48:18

Although I'm not really, into, Flying Saucers, this book was really very good. Lots of fun. Stephen Coonts is good. I'd recommend it.

AudiobooksNow review by Wendy on 2010-04-21 12:23:23

wow - This novel was the most cheeziest novel I have ever listened. ....The dialogue is hoakey... plots almost non existant and perdictible.

AudiobooksNow review by Laurie on 2012-07-30 04:29:24

Dont let the standard reviews fool you: this is a prime piece of satire. From an American president who is sweating and messing up his makeup on national TV over whether hell have to welcome aliens into a multicultural White House, from the blowhard TV evangelist John Bob its officially The End of Time, or at least the coming of the AntiChrist, to the UFO special military attache Joe Bombing DeLoreo, this spoof of US secrecy and world bossiness is done with such clever tongueincheek that taking it seriously is far too easy if youre too serious about your UFOs.Besides that, its a great piece of flying fiction by a knowledgeable pilot, and for us aircraft drivers, it makes flying into space seem just a little more plausible and concrete. Great barnstorming read!

Goodreads review by Ron

This is the 1st of a trilogy in the Saucer series. A saucer was discovered mostly buried in the African desert. There is a competition to see who owns it, while 2 Americans learn to fly it and hide it. What I really like about the book is the idea expressed that humans manufactured it, many, many ye......more

Goodreads review by George

Don't read this as serious sci-fi with scientific explanation and deeply developed characters...it's not that. Light satire makes it a book that's just plain fun. Yes, the characters are a bit flat and credulity gets stretched here and there. The reaction of government to the finding of a flyable fl......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

Hard to believe I didn't like a book about a flying saucer, but this book is bad with incredibly cheesy writing.......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Ho Hum! Move along folks nothing to see here. I had previously sworn off techno thrillers but I had this book for so long so I decided to read it. Same stuff. Crazy general, dishonest president, mad billionaire, along with a kid who marvelously knows how to fly a flying saucer he discovered in the d......more

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