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Flight of the Serpent
  

Flight of the Serpent [Abridged] (Audio Cassette)

de Val Davis (Author)
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Federal investigators rule a mysterious plane crash in the Arizona desert a "pilot error," but archaeologist Nicolette Scott knows there is more to the story than authorities are letting on. When her eyewitness account of the incident is discredited, she joins forces with the dead pilot's grandfather, John Gault, a man who shares her expertise in aviation and her determination to uncover the truth. Their quest leads them to the discovery of a top-secret facility near the crash site, and, ultimately, to a chilling conspiracy allowing illegal aliens to be detained there for use as human guinea pigs in radiation testing. The action kicks in when the pair decides to take Gault's WWII bomber on its final flight to avenge his grandson's death.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient de la Mass Market Paperback édition.

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On a dig at the edge of the Sonoran Desert, archaeologist Nicolette Scott witnesses a bizarre plane crash that leaves a young man dead in the cockpit of his mangled, burning Cessna. Federal investigators call it pilot error. But the dead man's grieving grandfather, a man who shares Nick's passion for aviation, is demanding answers. Nick knows what she saw with her own eyes--a chopper shadowing the Cessna before it went down--but no one believes her except Matt's grandfather John Gault. Now what the two will find plunges them into a fierce battle against a deadly conspiracy.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 Nice try -- but this serpent is a garden snake, Jui 6 2004
Par Theodore A. Rushton (PHOENIX, Arizona United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This is a disappointing book, long on potential but short on the reality of Cochise County where it is supposedly set and absent on the black arts of rogue government agents.

The basic plot is feasible; some years ago the commander of the Arizona National Guard referred to the black arts of federal agencies with the comment, "I don't know what goes on there, I'm not about to ask, and I don't want to know." The story is set in the vicinity of Fort Huachuca, a major base for army intelligence which produced some interrogators who went to Abu Ghraib and other US prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition, Arizona is littered with abandoned military facilities and open land. Most of the northwest quarter of the state is empty and roadless; setting this story in a land of urban ranchettes is hardly credible.

Setting aside her depiction of Nicolette Scott as an archaeologist, the first jarring element is her description of a single-engine Cessna crashing into a canyon wall and ending up on the floor of the canyon. Supposedly, the fuselage was intact enough to walk up to the dead pilot to check for signs of life. It makes me wonder if Davis has ever seen a real aircraft crash, or even read about one.

Another oddity is the focus on rebuilding a World War II B-24 Liberator, which takes place almost overnight. I'm somewhat familiar with reconstruction of WW II aircraft as done by the Commemorative Air Force (former Confederate Air Force, based in Arizona). It takes months to accomplish the work she describes.

These flaws, based on my ignorance from personal experience or her unfamiliarity based on limited or flawed research, create jarring anomalies in an otherwise interesting, plausible and feasible story. Let's put it this way: if you don't know much about archaeologists, the military, aircraft or the Sonoran desert -- it could be interesting.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 A Whiff of the Supernatural, Jui 19 2000
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This book is a clasic love triangle, but one of the lovers is not a human being. One lover has been waiting for fifty years, the other has no time to wait. Only two of the triangle are aware of the rivlary. The object of their affection is totally unaware of what if going on. On the surface this book is an action-adventure, but underneath there is the whiff of the supernatural.
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