by Tim Sullivan
"What was that?"
They turned to see Ham and Chris approaching, drinks in their hands. "What did you learn?" Ham asked.
"That sometimes we have to work together. Corny, but it's true."
"That," Ham said, holding out a bottle as a peace offering, "was what I tried to tell you when we first got here."
John said nothing for a moment, staring at Ham as if sizing him up. "Yeah, maybe you did," he said, slowly breaking into a grin. "It wasn't that I didn't dig your message, it's just that people like you have always given us plenty to be suspicious of."
"Let's talk about that some other time." Ham offered the bottle again.
John smiled and accepted it, taking a healthy swig and making a face. "What is that stuff?" he gasped.
Ham looked slyly at Chris, and then at Jack and Sabrina. "Lizard oil," he said.
They all laughed. Tonight they would have a good time, but every one of them knew that it wasn't the end of the war. Mike and Julie's absence underscored that fact.
But until the Visitors returned, they had lives to enjoy, and that was something they hadn't been able to do over the past few days.
"Jack?" Ham offered the bottle.
"No, thanks. We're gonna take a little walk."
"Not toward the compound," Marie said. "There's a whole team of exobiologists going through what the Visitors left behind over there."
Sabrina smiled at her. "You're right, Marie. It's probably way too crowded there."
"Have fun," John said.
Jack and Sabrina said they would, and walked away hand in hand.
Watch for
PRISONERS AND PAWNS
next in the V series
from Pinnacle Books
coming in March!
FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON...
The alien leader Diana has renewed her pledge to break the resistance. At a laboratory hidden in the Everglades, a diabolical experiment is underway to bring success to her scheme. There, pro-football star Jack Stern and his fiancee, biologist Sabrina Fontaine, are unwilling participants in the creation of a "master race" — human-reptilian hybrids of super strength, bred to become soldiers against the resistance.
But even now, the leaders of the resistance are racing south to the alien's Everglades hideout, and into a battle that must smash...
THE FLORIDA PROJECT
V
Created by Kenneth Johnson
From Warner Bros. Television
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