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The Abductors: Conspiracy

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This is a rather mediocre book. A story of an alien invasion, the protoganist is a retired police officer turned private investigator and is hired to find the daughter of a rich man, and later an elderly man, both kidnapped by aliens, though this fact is unknown to him at first.

The Aliens are kidnapping elderly people and having doubles go into all the major cities carting a hydrogen bomb with attached EMP blaster. The protoganist, along with a group dedicated to finding and eliminating the alien threat on earth find and dismantle thier plan, and rescue some people.

While the story is interresting, the writing quality is poor and this would have been much better if it had been better written. In a final battle(which was suposed to be the story climax, but wasn't that powerful) the protaginist loads up his AK-47 and recives last-minute instructions on it's use, only to find himself shooting an M-16..(did the aliens switch it on him?)..in the middle of a shoot-out with a couple of aliens.

Well Riker, try again, not terribly bad for a first book.

Found this at my local ... store...bought it as a lark. Started reading it yesterday, finished it today. Not much to the book (other than laughing at the mistakes)...thought I would see if Frakes had the guts to ghost write a sequel...guess not! All in all, good light reading....

...[This] book needed a lot of work. One thing I found very irritating was the continual use of And or But to start sentences, very bad practice according to what I learned in my school days. I also noticed that AK-47 M-16 blunder, made me think that the writers (assuming that Frakes actually DID do any writing)have no experience with weapons. I thought the assaults against the Klar were also weak as well. If you really want to read the book try the discount section of your local bookstore, I got it in hardback for 40 cents less than the quoted paperback price.

This story was slow to start, but quickly got up to speed. The main character, McCallum, sounds like a profile of the author, which is a good thing, since it makes it easy to relate to the character. I like the Klar, though their large ships were difficult to imagine. The few mistakes, such as Harry when Henry was meant, and the AK-47 - M-16 blunder, did make the plot hard to follow at times. Left me scratching my head. Overall though, I am waiting for a sequel. There is potential for a made-for-tv flick.
~WILL~
riker17.com

After reading the "Abductors: Conspiracy" book by Jonathan Frakes, I was eager to read more and hopefully there will be a sequel. The main character, Richard McCallum, was easy to identify with. Easy to read and very enjoyable.

I love Star Trek and Jonathan Frakes has a good future ahead of him as a writer, but I did not like the book as much as I would have expected to because I thought he was writing from a different perspective. He writes it like he wasn't there, but had heard it from someone else. I had high expectations because it was written by a person who is clearly well-educated in science fiction, but I was slightly disappointed.

Cliche after cliche. Why in God's name would the US Army be using AK-47s? Oh, then two pages later they magically turn into an M-16, didn't this book have an editor? This is a good book if you are 10 years old, if you want a good alien invasion book, read Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Writing may not be Frakes' greatest talent, but he is a great storyteller. I came here looking for a sequel and am disappointed to not find one. Even though the writing is not the best, I very much enjoyed the story. As for the few mistakes in the book, well even the Great Stephen King makes them; that's why they have editors, but I guess sometimes the editor needs an editor. The book is a good read and the quotes at the beginning of each chapter are intriguing.

The Abductors: Conspiracy, by Jonathan Frakes, is a story of alien infiltration and abduction with total conquest of Earth as the ultimate goal. Frakes had a good idea here and with a little more dedication to the project it could have turned out very well. I found the grammar to be clumsy in many places, not refering to dialog which can be attributed to the character's patterns of speech. The short chapters were extremely annoying to me. At one point near the end of the book, characters were issued AK-47s and two pages later, within the same mini-chapter, were firing M-16s. The only reason I can imagine that this book made it to print is that the publisher hoped it would succeed on Frakes' fame as an actor and director of Star Trek TV shows and theatrical movies. It certainly couldn't do so on merit. I like Frakes, but this work is too amateurish and not ready for prime time.

First of all, the book arrived in less time that I thought and it was in very good condition. The book itself is a great read. I enjoyed it. Too bad he doesn't write more. Thanks for having it in stock!