The Night They Came: A Science-fiction Thriller....

Dave Gamboa
iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 9780595455195
Reviewed By Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (12/07)

Steven Daniels and his wife Karen are caught up in an adventure of alien infiltration.  They are given a glimpse into inter-dimensional beings from the future, and the horror of a world of alien cross-breeding which creates hy-brids in Dave Gamboa’s latest book “The Night They Came.”
 
The skies were clear and cool with a full moon and lots of stars.  However, Steve felt an eerie chill in the air as he returned home from a short stroll. He was intrigued as he gazed into the sky at a time when the red planet Mars was at its closest point to Earth.  Without warning creatures from another world, arriving in alien space crafts invaded Los Angeles.  Stunned and frightened, people were herded into the oval-shaped space ships. Steve escaped the panic, and pandemonium. He confiscated a bus. Returning home to save Karen, Steve rescued a young mother who had just lost her daughter to the aliens.
 
Zigzagging through town Steve rescued two more women and four men. The night ahead became a nightmare for the four women, and for Steve, and his new friends, Alex, Michael, Brian, and Greg.  They drove into a secluded spot in the mountains overlooking Los Angeles. The group becomes terrorized as they fall into the hands of an elitist group of scientists, working with the government in a secret plan of alien experimentation.  As his four friends fall into the hands of the crazed scientists and hy-brids, Steve is forced to fend for his life.
 
Dave Gamboa is a gifted storyteller.  The plot is filled with fast-paced action, believable characters, intriguing aliens and hy-brids.  Insightful dialog bridges the plot twists and captivated me right up to the final climax, and thought-provoking conclusion.
 
Dave writes a thought-provoking story mixing creative imagination, the horror of the unexplained and his own nightmares with real life situations in “The Night They Came.”  His writing just keeps getting better.

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