Book Review: "The Roswell Conspiracy" by Boyd Morrison

After the 1908 Tunguska blast levels a Siberian forest the size of London, a Russian scientist makes an amazing discovery amongst the debris. In 1947, ten-year-old Fay Allen of Roswell, New Mexico, witnesses the fiery crash of an extraordinary craft unlike anything she's ever seen. More than sixty years later, former Army combat engineer Tyler Locke rescues Fay from gunmen who are after a piece of wreckage she claims is from the Roswell incident. Incredulous of her tale, Tyler believes the attack on Fay is nothing more than a burglary gone wrong. But when he finds himself locked in the back of a truck carrying a hundred tons of explosives and heading for a top secret American base, Tyler knows that he has stumbled onto the opening gambit of something more sinister than he ever imagined. Because disgraced Russian spy Vladimir Colchev is after an Air Force prototype code-named Killswitch, an electromagnetic pulse weapon of unprecedented power. Although Tyler is able to avert catastrophe at the US facility, Colchev gets away with the bomb and plans to turn it on America itself. To complete his mission, he needs only one other key component, a mysterious object recovered from the Roswell crash. In a desperate race against time, Tyler must unmask a conspiracy a century in the making to rescue the United States from electronic Armageddon. - from Amazon.com

What another great read written by Boyd Morrison in his series of books regarding Tyler Locke! This is the third book in said series, and after reading the first two, there was no way I was not reading this one!

Tyler Locke, a former Army combat engineer, and his best friend Grant Westfield, former Army Ranger and current electronic and bomb expert, both work for Gordion, a company Locke started, that helps companies world-wide with extreme testing of products from innovative vehicles to electronics and beyond. Both happen to be in Australia when they decide to meet Fay for an appointment at her request. Walking into a shoot-out at her place, the story unfolds leaving them chasing a former Russian spy Vladmir Colchez, who has stolen a U.S.-Australian test weapon that is able to cause an EMP that can take out the U.S. The required unknown element called xenobium is the best trigger for the device, called Killswitch. With Fay's piece of the wreckage from her younger days in Roswell, N.M., they travel from Australia to Easter Island to  South America in an attempt to stop Colchev from obtaining the extraterrestial xenobium that has been hidden.

Once again, Morrison has kept my attention with the action involved in this story. With a bit of slapstick comedy relief, and even if the eventual climax is a bit predictable (good guys always win in the end) I found the read very interesting and relaxing. I look forward to any other books in this series Morrison may write, and plan to check out some of his other novels as well. Definitely a five star book!