Bitter Waters

Aliens are among us - and yes, most of them do want to kill us. Unfortunately for the human race, our own species is pretty much intent on the same thing, under the misguided assumption that they're wiping out demons.... Barely recovered from their adventures among family out West, Max and Ukiah are called in on a missing child case - the police think the toddler's disappearance may be linked to a string of kidnappings. When Homeland Security takes a hand and a cult seems to be targeting Ukiah for something more deadly than recruitment, things heat up fast.

Fast paced, edge of your seat stuff - can't wait to see what happens next. Too many escaped cultists and those missing alien machines.... ( )

Book three about Ukiah Oregon suffers the sameweakness as the previous novel; the need to introduce new readers to the backstory - forcing "old" readers to read clumsily introduced summaries of earlier events.
Still an engaging read, with interesting characters. The spped with which the story unfolds leave little time for interpersonal interaction, and the characters are less developed.

Ukiahs son is kidnapped, as has 4 other children been, and the kidnappers are in posession of alien bio weapons. Ukiah discovers that the kidnappers are members of a cult centered around killing "demons" - which is how they perceive the hostile aliens - and having drug enhanced sex using poison produced by one of the bio weapons. The kidnappers aim is to use the kidnapped children to activate another one of the bio weapons. ( )

the backstory is massaged again
Ukiah's son is kidnapped.and he faces a religous cult that specialises in killing the demons they believe the aliens to be. ( )

A satisfying instalment in the series, with new challenges, and a solid detective story. ( )