They lied about Roswell, New Mexico…
It's the year 2042 and post World War III Old San Francisco is a seedy, radioactive dive, but P.I. Tex Murphy calls it home. The women in Tex's life are either washed up or shipping out, and this private dick is singing the lonesome gumshoe blues. Jack Daniels seems more like family everyday. Until one night at the Brew and Stew…
Project Bluebook was the official government investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects that examined, among other things, the "incident" at Roswell, New Mexico. The official story has been told: the Roswell crash was a balloon, nothing more. Project Bluebook was closed. But the real story is that Project Bluebook became Project Blueprint and helped start World War III.
It's the year 2042 and post World War III Old San Francisco is a seedy, radioactive dive, but P.I. Tex Murphy calls it home. The women in Tex's life are either washed up or shipping out, and this private dick is singing the lonesome gumshoe blues. Jack Daniels seems more like family everyday. Until one night at the Brew and Stew…
Project Bluebook was the official government investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects that examined, among other things, the "incident" at Roswell, New Mexico. The official story has been told: the Roswell crash was a balloon, nothing more. Project Bluebook was closed. But the real story is that Project Bluebook became Project Blueprint and helped start World War III.
How does Tex get involved? Well, he meets an old Cubana-smoking gent who's looking for a missing friend. It doesn't seem like much of a case at first, but then Tex Murphy has never been very good at staying out of trouble…and this time he's in for lots of trouble!
InformationPricing: US: $5.99 Canada: $6.99
Publisher: Prima Publishing ISBN: 0-7615-0068-5 Chapters: Thirty-two + Prologue Pages: 325 Availability: Rare (Ebay, Amazon) Soon to be available for purchase at AaronConners.net For excerpts, click here (will be taken to AaronConners.net) TyposOn page 174 (near the bottom) there is a missing quotation mark when Pernell says "What's up, Murphy?".
On page 258 (near the bottom) there is a missing quotation mark when Witt says "Feel free to look through whatever you can find". |
Review
My Grade: 95%
I really enjoyed the novel "The Pandora Directive" by Aaron Conners. Why? Well I think the main thing is, I really just like the story behind it (as I do with the game).
The novel helps explain more than the game and has some completely different scenes. If you have played the game I highly recommend you check this novel out so some other details can be filled in.
I thought Conners writing had improved from UAKM and it made the novel more enjoyable. The only disappointing thing is it follows the game more closely than the Under a Killing Moon novel, but this could be because the novel was written before the game was made (I'm not sure when each was released) whereas the UAKM novel was written after the game, and Conners may have thought it necessary to change many things to make it work on paper.
There's really not much to say, except that its a really good book and no Tex fan should be without it.
I really enjoyed the novel "The Pandora Directive" by Aaron Conners. Why? Well I think the main thing is, I really just like the story behind it (as I do with the game).
The novel helps explain more than the game and has some completely different scenes. If you have played the game I highly recommend you check this novel out so some other details can be filled in.
I thought Conners writing had improved from UAKM and it made the novel more enjoyable. The only disappointing thing is it follows the game more closely than the Under a Killing Moon novel, but this could be because the novel was written before the game was made (I'm not sure when each was released) whereas the UAKM novel was written after the game, and Conners may have thought it necessary to change many things to make it work on paper.
There's really not much to say, except that its a really good book and no Tex fan should be without it.
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