"William C. Dietz - Deathday" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dietz William)

Synopsis

In the wake of a devastating alien invasion of Earth, former soldier Jack Manning emerges from the
wreckage of human civilization to wage war on the those that have enslaved the planet.




DEATHDAY
 By
William C. Dietz
Copyright ┬й 2001 byWilliam C. Dietz


To Ginjer Buchanan,
for many years of friendship, and good counsel.
Thank you for the great ideas,
the feedback, and continued support.




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DEATH DAY MINUS 155
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020


And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the
key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose smoke out of the pit, as the
smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And
there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of
the earth have power.

тАФREVELATIONS 9:1-2,
Holy Bible



NEWPORT, OREGON
The cities of New York, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, Cairo, Beijing, Sydney, Lima, Rio de Janeiro,
Johannesburg, Tehran, and New Delhi were already in flames by the time the people of Earth realized
they were under attack. Skyscrapers toppled, apartment buildings exploded, bridges collapsed, housing
tracts were incinerated, forests were consumed by fire, and pillars of black smoke speared the sky.

The nations of Earth wasted precious minutes hurling accusations at each other, and two actually
launched missiles before they realized the nature of their mistake and tried to abort. But it was too
late . . . and the cities of Bombay and Islamabad vanished in the twinkling of an eye.

The truth was that the attack originated from space, from the great blackness that started just beyond the
planetтАЩs atmosphere, and extended past the edge of the galaxy. Monsters, the same ones that children so