Stolen Skies, Tim Powers
Stolen Skies, Tim Powers
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Stolen Skies

Author: Tim Powers

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/04/2022


Synopsis

ROGUE AGENTS SWEPT UP IN THE SEARCH FOR AN ANCIENT RELIC IN A UFO NOVEL AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT!

Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn’t have—and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him.

But Castine risks career, liberty, and maybe even life, to warn Vickery—and now they’re both fugitives, on the run from both the U.S. government and agents of the Russian GRU Directorate, which has its own uses for the UFO intelligence.

With the unlikely aid of a renegade Russian agent, a homeless Hispanic boy, and an eccentric old Flat-Earther, Vickery and Castine must find an ancient relic that spells banishment to the alien species, and then summon the things and use it against them—in a Samson-like confrontation that looks likely to kill them as well.

Sweeping from the Giant Rock monolith in the Mojave Desert to a cultist temple in the Hollywood Hills, from a monstrous apparition in the Los Angeles River to a harrowing midnight visitation on a boat off Long Beach Harbor, Stolen Skies is an alien-encounter novel like no other.

About Tim Powers

Tim Powers is the author of over a dozen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, and Three Days to Never. He has received the Locus, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on August 04, 2022

Rec. by: MCL; previous work Rec. for: Mulder and Scully, and for "Carl Gerhard Busch" (if that's his real name) The truth, it's been said, is out there. Sometimes, the truth is even farther out than that. Stolen Skies is the third entry in Tim Powers' "Vickery and Castine Series," starring the cutest co......more

Goodreads review by Rick on April 24, 2023

Not as good as the first two in the series, but it's Tim Powers, so it's still good.......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 21, 2022

This book still doesn’t approach the best of Powers’ efforts for me, but I enjoyed it more than the two previous books in the series - I’d consider it a high three. Castine, more than Vickery, is the primary protagonist here, and her point of view works well for this story. Galvan returns too, as wel......more

Goodreads review by Angus on May 17, 2022

Grading this one is tough. Impressive start. Fairly middling middle. Terrible finish that had me struggling from page to page. One star? Two stars? One? None? I was thinking this was more science-fiction oriented, with aliens and conspiracies and whatnot, after reading the inner flap. But I’m thinki......more

Goodreads review by King on May 08, 2024

Vickery and Castine is a series that I liken to in my mind to Another Kingdom by Andrew Klavan. I'm not 100% sure why exactly this is, but I do at least have a few guesses. Firstly, a significant chunk of the books (effectively all of this one and approximately half of "Another Kingdom") take place......more