The
Scout is a science fiction thriller written by Eric Tozzi, a former
NASA/JPL documentary producer for Mars planetary exploration, and an award winning film director (Ray Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope").
Change
is inevitable. It's heading for Earth at twelve thousand miles per
hour...and it will land virtually undetected. For Jack McAllister, a
young writer who has finally launched a career for himself, it begins
tragically: his estranged father, a former NASA engineer, dies suddenly
at his home in Merriweather, Indiana, leaving Jack's
Alzheimer's-stricken mother a widow. But in the wake of personal
heartbreak, he's confronted by an even more astonishing event...the
covert landing of an alien machine in the forest just a few miles
outside of town.
Now Jack must unmask the true purpose of the otherworldly device that has begun a detailed environmental survey of the woods. Aided by the town's young and resilient female deputy sheriff, he soon discovers that the alien scout is only one small part of a much larger operation, and the countdown to a terrifying global catastrophe is about to take place. Drawing deeply from his father’s scientific influence, all while attempting to avoid the snares of a sexy, seductive and scheming local TV reporter, Jack uncovers—and ultimately finds himself an unwilling component of—an alien plan set to terminate life on Earth as we know it.
Now Jack must unmask the true purpose of the otherworldly device that has begun a detailed environmental survey of the woods. Aided by the town's young and resilient female deputy sheriff, he soon discovers that the alien scout is only one small part of a much larger operation, and the countdown to a terrifying global catastrophe is about to take place. Drawing deeply from his father’s scientific influence, all while attempting to avoid the snares of a sexy, seductive and scheming local TV reporter, Jack uncovers—and ultimately finds himself an unwilling component of—an alien plan set to terminate life on Earth as we know it.