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  • First Contact

  • Brawl of the Worlds, Book 1
  • By: Frank Tayell
  • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
  • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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By: Frank Tayell
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Summary

If first contact took place today, how would the world react?

For the alien towani, Earth is a holy site where their Last Prophecy will be fulfilled. They will do anything to protect the planet. Protecting humanity is an optional extra.

In 1888, fleeing starvation in Ireland, Sean found work as a guide to the Whitechapel slums for the publisher of grisly penny dreadfuls. Not even the most lurid of those tales was as outlandish as his encounter with visitors from another world. When they take him back to their homeworld, first contact with a human will change their society forever.

By 2020, there is a permanent, but secret, non-terrestrial presence on Earth. Negotiating our planet’s membership in the alien federation and concealing its existence is the responsibility of the UN. When the pandemic begins, Earth enters lockdown, and our solar system is quarantined.

While technically not a prisoner, Serene is no more able to leave the tunnels below the alien embassy in Germany than any of her human cousins locked down above ground. Keeping busy with janitorial work, one day blurs into the next, until she stumbles onto an alien smuggling ring. What begins as a hunt for a thief transporting sacred Earth artefacts off-world leads to a 2000-year-old mystery that threatens to bring war to the entire galaxy.

By the summer of 2022, Harold Goodwin needs a holiday. As camping is all his bookseller’s salary can afford, he opts for a ramble through the countryside that inspired the novels he so loves. Whether by chance or prophecy, a poor choice of campsite thrusts him into the middle of an alien plot to make Earth the next proxy-battleground in a century-old war.

First Contact is a light-hearted tale of intergalactic war and planet-shaping prophecies. As booksellers rise and empires fall, the hidden history of the galaxy will be revealed. Based on real events.

©2022 Frank Tayell (P)2023 Frank Tayell
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Wow

I am a big fan of Frank's work and I am not disappointed with this one if this is your first book by Frank you are in for a big treat

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Sorry…not for me.

I was initially intrigued by the premise but I soon got lost and confused as the story bounces from place to place. I found the narrator a little ‘flat’ and got a little frustrated with the dialogue…Tempest said…Serene said…Tempest said…Serene said…

Sorry but couldn’t finish the book.

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Fantastic

What a great book! I throughly enjoyed the twists and turns, especially the ending. Tim Bruce is again on form with his reading, although, I’d expect little else.

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