Area 51 is unlike any book I have read. I’m a romance thriller author so this mixed genre is outside of my wheelhouse. But since the military factors into some of my books, I was curious how the author, Bob Mayer, with an impressive military background, would handle the military aspects of the book. The heroes of the book comprise an elite team of ex-special ops warriors who’ve been selected to defend and destroy evil forces that were unleashed in Russia at Chernobyl in the 1980’s.
In the beginning of the book I floundered, it took me a while to get into the flow of the story. It felt unbelievable, which it is, but I found myself falling under Mayer’s spell of storytelling as I continued to read. He excels at characterization, and I enjoyed the comradery of the characters. The dialogue between them was spot on, succinct, and witty. He took trained killers and humanized them in a way that had you cheering.
The story is simple. Some kind of evil was unleashed at Chernobyl and it wants to cause havoc in the human world. When a rift opens somewhere in the world the evil unleashes what the Nightstalkers have named, Fireflies. No one has figured out exactly what they are or who controls them, but these malignant lifeform are capable of inhabiting and taking over anything they insert themselves into excluding humans. We’re talking about a fourteen foot cactus, a piece of machinery, a security system, a pool, or a dog. Once they have taken solid form they are deadly. The Nightstalkers have one mission and that is to destroy the Firefly invaded object, which doesn’t destroy the Firefly, but simply returns it to from where it came. The Nightstalkers exist solely to close the rift and keep the evil within from taking over the world.
The Nightstalkers are led by a woman, Ms. Jones, a scientist who worked at Chernobyl on that fateful day when a nuclear meltdown occurred. She paid a heavy price physically and she is an interesting combination of frail, degenerating body, and a brilliant mind and will of steel. She is an enigma and a recluse, and after a new Nightstalker’s initial interview and hiring, she’s never seen by them again. Only their field commander, a woman with the moniker Moms communicates and receives direction and orders from Ms. Jones.
The story really begins when one of their own, a Nightstalker named Burns, goes rogue. The stakes shift into high gear and the adventure is on.
This motley cru of supermen and superwoman are superbly portrayed and I became quite attached to each character. I especially liked the young sixteen-year-old girl, Scout, who attaches herself to the Nightstalkers and develops an unlikely relationship with the least congenial member of the Nightstalker team, Nada. Scout is a smartass teenager, a misfit of sorts, who ends up becoming an instrumental member of the Nightstalker team when a rift opens and six Fireflies are unleashed in Scout’s neighborhood in North Carolina.
Area 51 is an entertaining read with memorable characters and I enjoyed losing myself in Bob Mayer’s imaginative world.
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