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PICTURE OF DEATH . . .

A new image appeared on the computer screen. Two areas were circled in
yellow. One was full of tiny blue spots. The other red ones.
"That's two villages," Kincaid said. "The blue dots are dead bodies. Recently
dead and cold."
"My God," Lisa Duncan exclaimed, "there must be a hundred of them."
"I don't get it," Turcotte said. "Are they connected to the rocket that went
down there?"
"I don't know," Kincaid admitted. "It just seems like too much of a
coincidence. And what's even more bizarre is the other village, where all the
people show up dark red. The shade indicates the average body temperature is
over one hundred one degrees Fahrenheit."
"Everyone in the village is hot?" Turcotte asked.
"Looks like it," Kincaid said.
"What are we looking at?" Duncan asked.
"The end of the world. To be more specific, the death of every human being on
the face of the planet who is not a puppet of the aliens. . . ."

ROBERT DOHERTY

AREA 51

THE MISSION

To my father, George Mayer, for helping make a dream come true

PROLOGUE
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A golden tendril was stretched out from the guardian computer under the surface
of Mars and wrapped around the head of the Airlia who had awakened the first
echelon and sent them off in their talon ships toward Earth.
The guardian informed her of the destruction of the fleet and the death of her
comrades. The pupils in her red eyes narrowed as she processed this information.
She twitched as the guardian picked up a small anomaly near Mars. She had the
surface sensors focus on it. Something was coming toward her location, less than
thirty seconds out. There was no electromagnetic reading and she almost ignored
it, but she paused. She was the only one left awake. She could afford to take no
chances. She mentally gave the commands.
In the center of the solar field array a bolt of pure energy shot upward. It
hit the incoming Surveyor probe dead-on.
The Airlia saw the nuclear explosion take place three miles above her
location. It had been close but not close enough.
The Airlia began giving commands. She would wake the others. Then there was
much to do.
The first battle had been lost, but the war was far from over.


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