Predator: Turnabout [Paperback]

Steve Perry (Author)

Book Description

Series: Predator | Publication Date: March 25, 2008

Deep in the Alaskan forest, ranger Sloan comes across the torn and bloody carcasses of Grizzly bears. Searching a human cause for the massacres, he discovers a team of poachers hunkered within the Alaska wilderness, waiting for the chance to score a big kill. He also finds evidence of the most fearsome killers in the universe: the Predators.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (March 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159582054X
• ISBN-13: 978-1595820549
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #90 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Publishers > Dark Horse

More About the Author

I'm married, got kids, grandkids, dogs, all like that. Ex-hippie, long-time martial artist, duffer on the guitar.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Throwback for the Series, May 20, 2008

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Captain Boosh (Southern California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Predator: Turnabout (Paperback)

For anyone that seems to not think this is a great Predator novel, I think you're missing the point here. Yeah, it's not all about the predators hunting and deals with humans a lot, but this is a complete homage to the first movie.

We get an ex-marine sniper who knows how to hunt with the best of them, loaded with the latest and greatest technology, who is a survivalist at heart and can take on the best and baddest. He's basically Dutch at 60.

We get to see a new spin on what made the first movie so great, a fight between man and Predator on a somewhat level playing field. Rather than an all out shoot em up, this takes some great setups and trap tactics to tell a very convincing story about how most of us would love to live through.

Regardless, this story has great characters that you actually feel for by the end and some really neat ideas of how this type of battle would go down. If you remotely like any other novels in these series (Aliens as well), this is a must buy.

Not to mention Perry and daughter have been writing these things for years.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid and Satisfying, July 30, 2010

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Christina "Internet Automaton" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator: Turnabout (Paperback)

Perry is one of the better authors of these things and usually when I read a book by him I know it's at least going to be readable.
My main complaint is that, I guess, these books aren't taken seriously. I mean, they are about murderous space monsters, so I'm not sure why I thought that they would be, but what I mean by that is there are numerous typos and grammatical errors in the book that somehow slipped through what should be a rigorous proof-reading procedure. I don't even know if there is any proof-reading. The errors are not bad; just simple mistakes, like at one point I think the author duplicates a word in a sentence and another time a word was missing altogether. The types of mistakes that happen to anyone who writes, but that should have been caught somewhere along the line. Not a big deal at all, just a minor nit-pick.
The plot itself is simple, but solid and entertaining to read. I did not check the copyright date in this book, so maybe this is just a really bizarre coincidence, but I laughed while reading about the dead guy in the beginning of the book who is so obviously based on Timothy Treadwell, the "Grizzly Man" who was killed by bears while being a weird hippie in the Alaskan wilderness in 2003. Pretty funny.
Anyway, I didn't care for the love story aspect of the book, but I did really love the overall plot. I thought the characters were pretty well rounded.
Worth the read in my estimation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Snipers, Poachers, and Predators ; oh my, May 6, 2008

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R. Howell "boriskhan" (Medford, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator: Turnabout (Paperback)

Plain and simple: former Marine sniper, Sloane is now a park ranger in Alaska. A group of poachers are in his park taking a toll on the bears for blackmarket resale purposes. Mary shows up to visit the death site of her brother. Meanwhile the predators are having their Hunt on the bears but then focuses on the humans too. This is more a book about an old sniper taking out pent up aggressions on the poachers and the predators are bit players at best in this outing. I didn't mind the story but it could have been much better without Mary and with some more predator side action (describe a few Hunting scens for them please). This is a bit like the mini-series comics put out by Dark Horse Comics in the late 90s. Its alright but definitely need more predator action.