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Reacquisition
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Title: Reacquisition
Series: Project U.L.F., 2
Author:
Stuart Clark
ISBN:
978-0-9787782-8-6
Product Code: BK0037
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 416
Release Date: February 2010
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Review by:
Midwest Book Review
When I reviewed Project U. L.
F. a few years ago, I was very impressed with Stuart Clark's work. He had
written a story about a team of expert trappers who went to alien worlds
to find specimens for the Interplanetary Zoological Park (I.Z.P.) in
Chicago. It was one of the best off-world adventures I've read in long
time. So, I was eagerly awaiting the second book about these exotic animal
trappers.
Project U.L.F.: Reacquisition does not disappoint, though its premise is
very different. This time Wyatt Dorren, who once headed the U.L.F. team
and left the risky but thrilling job when he married and had a family,
returns to help Chris Gault, the current U.L.F. leader. An act of
terrorism by the Alien Liberation League has shut down the containment
fields and security systems of the Interplanetary Zoological Park and
unleashed all of the exhibits onto the unsuspecting residents of a
thriving urban center. Wyatt and Chris call in all of the U.L.F. trappers
available. The U.L.F. is suffering from budget cuts and downsizing and
results just a handful of weary trained trappers and sixteen raw recruits
with equipment that is meant to work in wilderness areas, not with the
electromagnetic interference of a big city. The trappers pursue these
dangerous animals into urban rooftops, cellars, subways, and sewers,
hoping to capture them and return them to confinement and not have to put
them down.
One unique addition to their team is a blind woman with heightened
abilities. She can sense where the more sentient alien creatures are
located, making her a valuable asset but also an untried one in the heat
of a capture.
The police department, meanwhile, is trying to protect a population that
is growing hysterical as the alien creatures range farther into the city.
These events, though, turn Detective Superintendent Ed Lieberwits'
attention to a suspicious murder/suicide that happened at the
Interplanetary Zoological Park five years before that he hasn't been able
to let go of. He thinks that there's a connection somehow between the
current crisis and what happened there five years before.
Project U.L.F.: Reacquisition is a creepy, well-crafted tale that will
keep readers turning pages well into the night and will leave them
sleeping with the light on. Stuart Clark's prose is dynamic and
descriptive, his dialogue is crisp and lively, and his plotting is
exquisitely detailed. He gets into the heads not only of the U.L.F. team
but also into the heads of the police, of the aliens' victims, and even of
the creatures themselves. It is a very rare gift that an author can do
that so fluidly within a novel that is a sequence of little scenes and not
just one chapter devoted to the good guy and one to the bad guy. Though I
wanted to read this book quickly to find out what happens, I just had to
savor passages and marvel at what I was reading.
Stuart Clark has Michael Crichton's ability to inject technical/scientific
information without the reader being aware of it, but I think Clark does
it with more finesse. Clark's pacing is also top notch.
Project U.L.F.: Reacquisition is a great read. Though it's listed on some
bookstore sites as a YA title, it really is for adult readers as well.
And, there will be more coming from this talented writer. Stuart Clark
isn't finished with these characters or this concept yet.
Review by:
Angela Schuch, SciFi Chick
Wyatt Dorren has retired from alien trapping,
leaving the Interplanetary Zoological Park (I.Z.P.) to start a family.
But when a fanatical group breaks into the zoo, releasing its deadly
inhabitants, Wyatt is the only man qualified to coordinate a
reconnaissance and rescue effort. While Wyatt and IZP employee and
protégé Chris Gault track down the escaped alien creatures, police
officers Ed Lieberwits and Ed Wood track down the people responsible for
the mayhem. But the detectives discover a shocking mystery behind the
break-in, one that began years ago.
I can’t say enough about
how much I enjoyed this one. Clark’s characters are sympathetic and
engaging. And the aliens are scary and unpredictable and loose in
Chicago. While this novel is a sequel of sorts, it’s also a solid
standalone. And as before, this latest installment is an action-packed,
nail-biting, thrill ride. The book reads like movie, the action jumping
from scene to scene between the various characters. And the non-stop
suspense builds throughout the novel, to its exciting conclusion. It’s a
fantastic, engrossing story that any scifi fan will enjoy. Don’t miss
this or Clark’s debut novel Project U.L.F.
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