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Title: Jump Start by Gary Carter ISBN: 1-4137-0193-0 Publisher: Publishamerica Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Myths and Legends - Could this happen to us?
Comment: Scientist Jacob Malfusco's career is reaching its end that is until he makes a startling discovery. Fossilized remains. But nothing before encountered by archeologists, in Death Valley lays the skeletal remains of a nine thousand year old dragon! In Australia, archeologist Marsha Kimbrough's career is doing no better when she stumbles upon - a hidden pyramid. Pappy Darringer, an astronomer learns that a vast number of small meteors are headed straight for Earth.

Nothing is at it seems. Able to put together the connection from ancient traces, like a puzzle, pieces slowly fall into place linking the complex calendar of Stonehenge and puzzling ruins. When the meteors reach Earth - they turn out to be a calamity of dragons! Unforeseen, the populace soon learns humans are on the menu. The situation instantly grows from bad to worse. On the brink of global extinction, Earth fights back. Everything has a beginning and an end. But one question plagues these tortured souls: Will there be survival for the human race?

Jump Start is well written, and captivating. Readers will easily identify with the characters determination, as well as flaws. Author Gary Carter has written a challenging tale, which includes UFO's, Dragons and extraterrestrials. His explicative comparisons of similar but disparate mythologies provide a fuller understanding of the world. Including a theory revealing cataclysmic events, and man's intellect in planetary history.

Maybe if we take the time to study ancient environments we may yet learn lessons that will wake us up in time to avert the great extinction of species going on around us at this very minute. One for which we ourselves are responsible because of our often selfish, uncaring, greedy or unthinking actions.

Whether you are worried about the environment or not Jump Start has something for everyone, and fans of phenomena and the unexplained will surely enjoy this novel.

Reviewed by Betsie

Rating: 4
Summary: Enjoyable tale of dragons, pyramids, and the world's end
Comment: A failed scientist discovers bones in Death Valley--bones that look like nothing on earth, nothing, that is, but a dragon. An archeologist discovers a huge pyramid buried under the sands of Australia. An astronomer sees a huge number of small meteors approaching Earth. They seem unconnected, but when the meteors arrive, they become something more terrible than anyone had guessed--a plague of dragons intent on eating and growing. And anything, any biomass, even people, are their natural prey. Earth's government and her military fight back, but how do you fight a huge fast-moving and virtually invisible opponent?

Scientists Jacob Malfusco and Marsha Kimbrough were on downward career spirals before their discoveries. At first it is difficult to believe that a nine-thousand year-old dragon skeleton and mankind's sudden advance in intelligence could be connected, but something happened about nine thousand years ago. Humans that had lived together in villages and hunted with crudely chipped stones suddenly discovered agriculture, advanced to the new stone age, built pyramids and stonehenge-style monuments. Marsha suspects that there is a connection--and the connection comes from space. It isn't a popular theory, even when the dragons land and prove the theory to be fact.

Author Gary Carter writes a page-turning adventure. The dragon hypothesis explains mankind's intelligence explosion, but also mass die-offs that have happened throughout planetary history. Jacob and Marsha make intriguing and flawed characters. The dragon attack drags them from their bad habits and makes them rethink their lives. Of course, rethinking their lives will only pay off if they survive long enough to enjoy them. And the dragon attack is so overwhelming that they sometimes wonder whether humanity is finished. The example of the last invasion, and St. George's elimination of the last dragon in that attack provides some hope--but only some.

Fans of alien explanations of the pyramids, dragons, and end-of-the-world fiction will definitely want to get their hands on Gary Carter's JUMP START.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: Excellent book! Nice, tight writing, good characters, and a really good ending that make me want to read more of Gary's work. Rose Staddler - editor and publisher of "In the Writer's Mind".