Earth Rise
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ISBN: 0441009719 / Publisher: Ace, September 2002
After an alien invasion by the Saurons has devastated the Earth, Jack Manning and Alex Franklin join forces to undertake an underground war of resistance.
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It took three days for the Saurons to destroy the great cities of the world, wrapping the earth in a blanket of fire and ash. More than three billion people perished under the alien assault. But the invaders stopped short of complete annihilation. They needed survivors. They needed slaves.Jack Manning was one of them. Forced into an uneasy alliance with the enemy, he rose from Sauron slave to Chief of Security in a government instated to ensure human cooperation. But Manning's heart has always been with the rebels. He knows the purpose behind the construction of the oppressive alien temples - incubators for a new generation of Saurons that will one day make the takeover of Earth complete. Unless someone fights back.Spearheading the movement with Manning is President Alex Franklin - a seeming puppet of the Saurons who's decided to start pulling his own strings. A revolution cloaked in deepest secrecy has begun as two secret agents recruit for an underground war. And the ultimate battle for supremacy is about to be waged.
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