When the Williams family pulls into the township of Gainsville, Kansas, to look up an old friend they quickly find themselved imprisioned in a nightmare scenario as US government forces throw a security cordon around the area.

Something else has arrived in Gainsville.

Xan-Ubara-Q'han, Surveyor-General of the Ninth Swarm has landed.

 

Published
1986
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Patrick Tilley

Patrick Tilley (1928-2020) is a British science fiction author best known for The Amtrak Wars series of books - a futureworld epic set on the eve of the fourth millennium in a world emerging from the ravages of a dimly understood global holocaust. The name "Amtrak" - appropriated by a specific group of survivors - is a name remembered from what is called "The Old Time". Tilley died on 25 May 2020 after a short illness.