The Cosmic Looters

Alone on a remote New Mexican mesa, Duncan Wyatt is jolted awake by a thunderous crash and finds himself face-to-face with the impossible: a disc-shaped alien ship and Brinna Halphard, a black-haired woman whose calm, disciplined presence is as dangerous as the weapon she carries. She claims to be an advance scout for a raiding force sweeping the galaxy, plundering worlds and moving on to Earth after Alpha Centauri. Wyatt knows no one will believe him unless he can produce proof, but Brinna insists that Earth is already mapped, infiltrated, and doomed. In a desperate bid to save his world, Wyatt forces his way aboard her craft and is swept into a terrifying journey from Earth's shadow to the Moon and beyond, where a vast scout tender waits to carry him toward Alpha Centauri. Caught between Brinna's uneasy cooperation, the scrutiny of her superior Makvern, and the brutal politics of an alien fleet, Wyatt struggles to warn Earth before invasion becomes reality. As he witnesses torture, betrayal, and a hidden struggle over a mysterious "Second Party," he realizes the war for Earth may already be far larger—and far stranger—than he imagined. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.