Lost and Found Book Review - Cave To The Cross Apologetics

Lost and Found by Robert E. Kearns

Synopsis:

In Ireland, Liam Dunne, comes across what might be a flying saucer. But certain people don’t want him to remember what he saw and Liam finds himself not remembering anything and missing that period of time. In Washington D.C., Lester Stevens, has come back to his old boss telling him he doesn’t have any memory from his time of accepting a secret position inside the Pentagon. Both men’s worlds collide and they begin to suffer from bad dreams. Both men work to find out what happened to them and what they saw.

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Review

This started out pretty well and good familiar territory. Mixing in some elements of an X-Files plot line of a man, Liam Dunne, at the wrong place at the wrong time of meeting US government agents recovering a crashed flying saucer. Dunne meets a Man In Black type character, Lester Stevens who is a rookie at his job and doesn’t have the heart to do what’s asked of him by the military men in charge. What occurs is a plot line that doesn’t really go anywhere and is hindered by some unnecessary flashback during the unfolding of no real tension being built.

Dunne and Stevens undergo the same drug and operation scenario to make them think that alien abductions happened to them to cover up for US military involvement in the recovery of crashed UFOs. There is some solid basis for a good story on that. Having Stevens’ story about how he joined the program and left is done during the time when Stevens’ has lost that memory. This should have been done right after Dunne being dropped back off after being “abducted” or should have been uncovered by Stevens under hypnosis which is where the story uses. But this going back and forth between his story that we kind of already know just with more details about what’s really happening under the Pentagon and him trying to figure out what is happening to him doesn’t make any sense. Dunne takes a big back seat in the story and is only there to push Stevens’ storyline.

Stevens has it easy through this. His boss believes him, the authorities believe him, his therapist believes him. He has some trouble sleeping and drinking more but he recognizes this and gets help. There are a couple of interesting investigation moments but he quickly takes a backseat for the inspecting authorities to take over. He’s in the military but doesn’t act like it and all he’s really threatened with is some violation of an NDA disclosure agreement he doesn’t remember signing. Not really the biggest scary, secret organization keeping the largest finding in human history under wraps for the past 70 years.

The ending is pretty blasé. It takes the safe ending and there’s a stupid scene with an alien with a knife to take care of a person who screwed up. It’s all just a jumbled mess and deflated in any tension or imagination.

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