Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58660 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Spooky alien abduction tale comes across as very realistic
Long time horror writer and one-time 80's writing partner of Stephen King and Peter Straub, Whitley Strieber is no stranger to alien abduction theories having himself experienced first hand alien encounters. These accounts have been the subject of successful non-fiction works i.e. "Communion" and "Transformation".

However, The Grays by Whitley Strieber, is a spooky highly plausible albeit fictional tale about alien abduction, which comes across as so realistic Strieber, in his meticulous research, must have interviewed real abductees using their vivid recollections (more often than not under hypnosis) and nightmares about aliens and their horrific tortures or experiments to form the basis of this fictional story.

For decades now much has been written about the Roswell incident from 1947 in which an alien spacecraft crash-landed on a New Mexican ranch and was passed off by the U.S. government as just a deflated weather balloon. However for years the theory was that of the three aliens pulled from the wreckage two survived and were kept alive for various reasons by the government officials at a secret location. And Strieber himself uses this same incident as a background story to his own sci-fi tale.

Over the years it has been believed that aliens track their victims and their families for an ultimate purpose. Whether it is to breed (causing some women to experience mysterious phantom pregnancies) and to create a super human race who now or soon will populate the earth, or whether it is just to warn mankind of its own cataclysmic demise in the near future, this is where the government cover-ups and top secret manoeuvres are enforced leaving Joe Public the vulnerable susceptible innocent victim in all these occurrences.

In all the tales surrounding aliens (fiction and from personal re-tellings) we are invariably given alien descriptions of those good, bad and ugly, yet the real bad guys always end up being government agency personnel who will stop at nothing to hide the truth.

In Strieber's The Grays Conner Callahan is a highly intelligent nine-year-old boy whose parents are alien abductees with suppressed memories of their own horrific experiences stemming from childhood. To the alien squad (a triumvirate of Grays known as the Three Thieves) keeping tabs on him, Conner will become mankind's saviour and it's a race against time to protect him before government morons launch a programme to eliminate Conner, his family and virtually the whole town under the guise of a natural disaster.

It's a pacy, tension filled and unputdownable story. An exciting read. I was hooked from start to finish.

Even though it's best to keep an open mind about these theories eventually the truth will out for indeed we are not alone.

excellent read
I throughly enjoyed reading this book although when i bought it i didnt know it was a fictional piece.The first thirty pages or so are pretty boring but then it explodes in to an addictive read,the characters feel real and the plot is excellent.This book is obviously written by somebody with intimate knowledge of the subject as he himself claims to have been abducted on several occasions throughout his life.All in all a very enjoyable read.