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Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling.There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain and most hideous death.... Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."… (meer)
Another piece of work by Grant to presumably pay the bills. This time a much better story than [b:Goblins|219471|Goblins (The X-Files)|Charles L. Grant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223640823s/219471.jpg|212498] since Grant basically steals the story from his own Oxrun Station novel [b:The Bloodwind|898619|The Bloodwind|Charles L. Grant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1231822677s/898619.jpg|883806]. Move it to the Southwest US from Connecticut, call it Sangre Viento (get it?), and voil��, instant X-Files novel. Doesn't even require an original idea. Instead of snow and ice, we get sand and gravel. Grant seems to forget this is a new novel and in the final third of the book he forgets to even call it the Sangre Viento anymore and just calls it Blood Wind. Probably the pressure of deadlines.
This isn't a bad book, and like I said, its better than [b:Goblins|219471|Goblins (The X-Files)|Charles L. Grant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223640823s/219471.jpg|212498]. This novel is more like the early X-Files episodes before it jumped the shark and became exclusively about multi-episode government conspiracies and cover-ups. This is a self-contained story that doesn't require a detailed familiarity with the back story or following the interconnected, overly complex conspiracy plot week after week.
Grant seems to have been "written-out" later in his career and doesn't produce anything near as good in long form as the Oxrun series or [b:The Pet|219472|The Pet|Charles L. Grant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312066961s/219472.jpg|353222]. His later short stories are much better than his later novel work. In fact, now that I think about it, even his early Oxrun short stories were better than the Oxrun novels. ( )
USA, ca 1995 Nogle mennesker dør på mystisk vis. Annie Hatch finder to lig. De ser ud til at være blevet skuret til døde af en slags sandtornado. Det viser sig at Nick Lanaya kan styre energien fra indianerpræsternes møde. Det er en blodvind, en Sangre Viento.
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Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling.There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain and most hideous death.... Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."
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Seriemoordenaars laten vaak een herkenbaar spoor achter, maar deze gaat wel heel raadselachtig te werk. Tussen de verminkte lijken die in Phoenix worden gevonden, lijkt geen enkel verband te zitten. De slachtoffers zijn van alle rassen, beide geslachten en alle leeftijden. Ook is er geen bewijs van verkrachting of van rituele moord. Er is maar één gemeenschappelijk kenmerk: ze waren het slachtoffer van een natuurlijke ramp, maar wel een van de meest onnatuurlijke natuurrampen die je je kunt voorstellen. Ze leiden steeds tot een zeer pijnvolle en onherroepelijke dood.
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This isn't a bad book, and like I said, its better than [b:Goblins|219471|Goblins (The X-Files)|Charles L. Grant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223640823s/219471.jpg|212498]. This novel is more like the early X-Files episodes before it jumped the shark and became exclusively about multi-episode government conspiracies and cover-ups. This is a self-contained story that doesn't require a detailed familiarity with the back story or following the interconnected, overly complex conspiracy plot week after week.
Grant seems to have been "written-out" later in his career and doesn't produce anything near as good in long form as the Oxrun series or [b:The Pet|219472|The Pet|Charles L. Grant|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312066961s/219472.jpg|353222]. His later short stories are much better than his later novel work. In fact, now that I think about it, even his early Oxrun short stories were better than the Oxrun novels. (