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    Invasion: Twisted, #4
    Invasion: Twisted, #4
    Invasion: Twisted, #4
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    Invasion: Twisted, #4

    By Linda Hurley

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    Danger lurks in the jungle but the newly promoted Commander is not discouraged. He has an opportunity he doesn't intend to let pass him by. Leading his troops to battle the giant alien creature he is blind to the greater danger hidden in the space between perception and comprehension.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Hurley
    Release dateMay 17, 2017
    ISBN9781386211884
    Invasion: Twisted, #4
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    Linda Hurley

    Linda Hurley has dined with politicians and ridden Harleys with outlaws. Her tendency to question everything has led her down some unusual paths in life but she insists her sanity remains intact. She now indulges her obsession with the words What If by writing science fiction, fantasy and the odd short thriller. 

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      Invasion - Linda Hurley

      The hard-packed dirt shimmered in the heat haze. The distant forest was no more than a dark smudge on the horizon. Outside the viewing window nothing moved. Inside the Command Centre the new Commander thought of his girlfriend. Take the Command, she said. Go, she said. Find us a place of our own where we can build a new world for our children. He had been content with his life as a lead scout until she had infected him with her visions of wealth and power. If she was here now he would rip off her head. It would alleviate the boredom of doing nothing while he waited for his scouts to return.

      He zoomed his view to focus on the point where the scouting party had entered the forest. The trees looked nothing like the trees at home and yet they were familiar. If not for their height he would swear he was looking at grass.

      He paced the length of the viewing window. With the cliff at their back and open country on three sides the Explorer was safe from ambush. He was itching to do something, anything, but he couldn’t mobilise the troops until he had his scout team’s report. He’d already bent the regulations by landing without a clear orbital survey and now it appeared whatever had caused the interference with their scanners in orbit was also playing havoc with their communications and bio-scanning equipment on the planet.

      It had been too long, the scouts should have returned hours ago, they had specific orders to go two clicks in and no farther. He had watched from his place in the Command Centre as they crossed the bare expanse of ground and disappeared into the forest. Since then there had been nothing, no movement, no

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