The Return

by Austin Boyd

Overview

The Return picks up six years after the events of book 2 in the series, with John Wells leading another Mars mission. In the opening chapters, John discovers two things: first, there has been another manned Mars mission on the planet simultaneously with John's, launched by Rex Edwards's Delta-V Corporation as an advance colony. And second, he discovers the wreckage of a couple of the "alien spiders" from the first books in the series.

Meanwhile, people very close to John are living in captivity in Raines's complex in Slovenia. On Mars, the astronauts' Earth Return Vehicle, in orbit, is apparently hit by meteorites and ruined. They begin to move their entire base, on wheels, to the site of the colony. Kerry and the FBI monitor, through secret surveillance, Raines's compound in Slovenia.

In preparation for impregnating the hundreds of teenage clone girls who first showed up in book 2, Raines moves them all to China; Monique escapes and stays behind, then plots with the FBI on how to apprehend and stop Raines. On Mars, John figures out who was behind everything.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617153853
Publisher:	AMG Publishers
Publication date:	07/27/2012
Series:	Mars Hill Chronicles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	103,521
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

A Navy pilot, nuclear weapons officer, and spacecraft engineer, Austin Boyd flew three thousand hours in war and peacetime operations, designed satellites, and built classified systems to track terrorists. A world traveler, NASA Astronaut Finalist, and inventor with multiple patents, he served on key Navy space assignments before retiring to Huntsville, Alabama, where he lives with Cindy, his wife of twenty-eight years, and their four children. He continues to support NASA, military space, and aviation through his work with a major defense contractor. An active Christian, Boyd has served in a variety of lay ministries devoted to evangelism, stewardship, and crisis pregnancy. In addition to writing the Mars Hill Classified series, Boyd has also penned dozens of technical articles about space issues and has written award-winning poetry.