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Whitley Strieber Communion: A True Story
Beech Tree Books 0688070868 / 9780688070861 Hardcover Good
0688070868 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Whitley Strieber Majestic
Berkley 1990 0425122956 / 9780425122952 Paperback Very Good
0425122956 From Publishers Weekly Strieber, author of Communion and Transformation , continues to write on the implications of UFO sightings in this novel, a blend of fact and fiction. Working on a tip from an ex-CIA agent, reporter Nicholas Duke investigates a decades-long cover-up of a 1947 spaceship crash, in what PW termed a "very long, sensationalized story." Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Once upon a time there was an author named Whitley Strieber who wrote some pretty good horror novels (The Wolfen, The Hunger, etc.), but then the flying saucers came and took him away and when he returned he wrote only about them and his fiction wasn't so good anymore. In fact, it's never been worse than in this overwrought retelling of the Roswell incident - a true-life case, legendary among UFO-buffs, wherein, allegedly, a saucer with dead occupants crashed in New Mexico in 1947 and was spirited away by the feds. Strieber opens in 1989, with the account of reporter Nicholas A. Duke, who claims "the scoop of the century" - i.e., the real story of what happened in Roswell, as told to him mostly by Wilfred Stone, charter member of the CIA and the man entrusted by Harry Truman to handle the perceived UFO menace. In a mix of newspaper reports, government documents, confessions by Stone, and third-person reconstruction by Duke, the story unfolds: the discovery of saucer debris by a New Mexican farmer; the dispatching of Stone to the site; Stone's finding of the craft and dead aliens; the autopsy of the aliens; the shackling of media coverage and decision - prompted by fear of the unknown and our warlike nature - to create the biggest cover-up ever by ridiculing all future UFO reports and by setting up the ultra-secret Majestic Agency to harbor UFO knowledge. Overlaid on this story, though, is another - a hazy rehash of the psychospiritual events recounted in Strieber's Communion and Transformation, with Stone in the Strieber role: of how Stone had been monitored by "the visitors" since childhood; of how, after Roswell, they tested his soul - for "[a man] sees in those dark angelic eyes a reflection of what he truly is" - and found it wanting. Some eerie and even powerful scenes, but mostly big pretense and tepid suspense, and scarcely a novel. Still, on the strength of the Strieber name alone, this shrill, pseudohistorical retread of the author's two earlier UFO books may well coast onto the bestseller lists. (For a calmer and more cogent account of the Roswell incident, see Timothy Good's Above Top Secret, 1988.) (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Whitley Strieber The Grays
Tor Books 0765313898 / 9780765313898 Hardcover Good
0765313898 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Whitley Strieber Transformation: The Breakthrough
Avon Books 0380705354 / 9780380705351 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0380705354 Mass Market Paperback, . G. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid unmarked copy. General Used condition. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Whitley Strieber Unholy Fire (Signet)
Signet 19940501 0451174968 / 9780451174963 MM Very Good
0451174968 From Publishers Weekly Weak and whining priests fight off a chillingly omnipotent demon in Strieber's often moronic tale of Satanic possession in New York City. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Of all the predators that have stalked Strieber's bestselling horror (Billy, Communion, etc.), none match for sheer exuberant evil the dark star of this resonant novel--a rip-roaring, fire- snorting demon infesting the soul of a Greenwich Village priest. But which priest harbors the demon? Kindly old John Rafferty, beloved pastor of Mary and Joseph church? His young assistant, Frank Bayley? Or ancient Tom Zimmer, mute for five years? A routine question, that, to drive the fast-moving plot, but one fueled by issues of faith and corruption--beginning with the enthralling opening chapters, which find Father John's vow of celibacy teetering under the seductive push of lovely young parishioner Maria Julien. Succumbing to Maria's kisses, John goes to her apartment...and the story leaps hours ahead, with Maria crowing ``The cherry is pitted'' to--Fr. Frank. He too, it seems, is under Maria's spell--and that of her leathers and whips. But that night, a vile, capering, nonsense-spewing entity--seen here, as throughout, in artful half-light--strangles Maria in the church. And over the next days, several more die gruesome deaths--two burned alive--even as the media uncover John's affection for Maria, and as the Holy See, shuddering at the scandal, puts Frank in John's place as pastor. In the meantime, a winsome female cop investigates the killings--and is attacked by the demon in her apartment--while old Fr. Tom shambles about in the wee hours. One priest is roasted, a second is unmasked, and a third must pit his shaky faith against the gibbering demon in an extended showdown that jumps and gyrates with evil energy. Any novel of demonic possession must bear comparison to The Exorcist--and Strieber's holds its own, with brilliantly realized characters, fascinating Church intrigue, and plenty of prose- dazzle, if not quite the shock and slam that made the Blatty so unforgettable. -- Copyright ?1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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