![]() ![]() ![]() The other alien, the chameleon, can adopt any human semblance a conscienceless killer, determined to survive at all costs, it has secretly become the world’s richest person. One, the changeling, spent thousands of years in the sea before coming ashore in 1931 to learn about humanity it can assume any form (“Back in the sixties I spent a week as a motel television set”). Meanwhile, we learn, there are two aliens roaming the Earth, neither aware of the other but alert to the possibility that there may be another. On a site in Samoa, they attempt to probe its secrets, but the superdense, superheavy object proves impervious. Russ and Jack soon join forces and raise it. Seven miles down, at the bottom of an oceanic trench, reposes a small, metallic, impenetrable object. He wants no military ties, but when about-to-be-ex-US Navy Admiral Jack Halliburton approaches him with a deep-water salvage proposal, he’s inclined to listen. ![]() Russell Sutton owns a small but expert marine research company. Near-future aliens-among-us yarn, from the author of Forever Free (1999), etc. ![]()
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