title: Saucer: The Conquest
author:  Stephen Coonts 
description: In this humorous UFO thriller, the sequel to bestseller Coonts's <i>Saucer</i> (2003), pilot Charlotte "Charley" Pine is hired to fly a French spaceplane to the moon, where millionaire Pierre Artois is building a base. Once there, she discovers that Artois has equipped the base with an antigravity beam projector and plans to make himself and his malevolent wife, Julie, rulers of the world. Charley promptly returns to Earth to warn everybody. Meanwhile, Newton Chadwick, a mad scientist in the pay of the French, kidnaps saucer-expert Egg Cantrell and forces him to fly to the moon in the original Roswell saucer that landed in 1947. Egg's nephew Rip Cantrell and Charley steal another flying saucer from the Smithsonian, and soon saucers and other borrowed alien high-tech are in pitched battle over the moon. Later, French pilot Jean-Paul Lalouette (perhaps the book's most engaging character) is determined to go down fighting and nearly turns the tables in a gripping aerial duel of saucers up and down the East Coast. Cartoonish characters with names like Senator Blohardt and Joe Bob Hooker add to the fun. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  SAUCER  
  
  
  THE CONQUEST
  
  
  
  
  
  _Stephen Coonts_
  
  
  
  
  
  ![fractalnoise digital press](../Images/logo.svg)
  
  
  
  
  
  v1.0 (2011.05)
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [PROLOGUE](../Text/005.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 1](../Text/006.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 2](../Text/007.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 3](../Text/008.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 4](../Text/009.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 5](../Text/010.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 6](../Text/011.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 7](../Text/012.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 8](../Text/013.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 9](../Text/014.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 10](../Text/015.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 11](../Text/016.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER 12](../Text/017.html)
  
  
  _To all those dreamers who looked at the moon and wanted to go_
  
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  
  
  
  
  JULY 1947
  
  
  
  
  
  The train eased slowly out of the blackness of the desert night into the
  spotlights. As the three locomotives hissed steam, soldiers piled off the
  train and rushed away to form a perimeter.
  
  
  
  
  
  Newton Chadwick stood with the small knot of civilians under the lights
  looking up at the giant black