Godfall
When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation—but the end doesn’t come. In fact, it isn’t an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed “the giant,” its arrival transforms the red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists—and a murderer.

As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists in tiger masks or struggling to control a town hall meeting about the construction of a mosque. As a series of brutal, bizarre murders strikes close to home, Blunt throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems connected to the Giant. With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his old worldview with the town he now lives in—before it’s too late.
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Godfall
When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation—but the end doesn’t come. In fact, it isn’t an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed “the giant,” its arrival transforms the red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists—and a murderer.

As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists in tiger masks or struggling to control a town hall meeting about the construction of a mosque. As a series of brutal, bizarre murders strikes close to home, Blunt throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems connected to the Giant. With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his old worldview with the town he now lives in—before it’s too late.
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Overview

When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation—but the end doesn’t come. In fact, it isn’t an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed “the giant,” its arrival transforms the red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists—and a murderer.

As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists in tiger masks or struggling to control a town hall meeting about the construction of a mosque. As a series of brutal, bizarre murders strikes close to home, Blunt throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems connected to the Giant. With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his old worldview with the town he now lives in—before it’s too late.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791256420537
Publisher: Edizioni di Atlantide
Publication date: 10/30/2024
Series: Blu Atlantide
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 3 MB
Language: Italian

About the Author

Van Jensen is an acclaimed novelist, screenwriter, and comic book writer. Godfall, his debut novel, is in development as a TV series with Academy Award winner Ron Howard attached to direct. Jensen began his career as a newspaper crime reporter, then broke into comic books and graphic novels as the writer of ARCA (IDW), Two Dead (Gallery 13), and Tear Us Apart (Dark Horse). Jensen has written world-renowned characters, including Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Godzilla, and James Bond. He has served as a Comic Book Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, teaching refugee children to tell their stories through comics. He lives in Atlanta.

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BEFORE

Under the moonlight, the pool of blood shone black. David squatted
and peered into the yard-wide void rent into the dirt and scrub brush.
It seemed deep, like he could fall in and tumble through the earth, spit
out in China, Australia. Wherever the hell is as far away from Nebraska
as a man can get.

“Sheriff. Which way you figure she went?”

David stood on a knee that stiffened when the weather turned frigid, a
reminder of a torn meniscus suffered during a high school football game
a decade and change earlier. His muscular build made itself known even
under his thick, brown coat, which had the words “Sheriff ’s Department”
stenciled in yellow across the back. He stood an inch shy of six
feet, though the black Stetson on his head made him seem taller. He
wore blue jeans, as he always did. The wind lashed at him, needles
against his face. Just his goddamned luck that someone would do this
on a night so cold.

He clicked on his flashlight, and the pool of blood burned to life. To
the side, Gentry Luwendyke stood with his arms crossed against a sheepskin
coat. A puff of exhalation issued from below his unruly mustache,
then was whisked away by the punishing February wind.

David carved slow arcs with the flashlight. Some ten yards away, the
light caught a smear of red.

“This way, it looks like,” David said.

David led the way from one spatter to the next, each splash of blood
smaller than the last, moving in a mostly straight line toward the dark
rim of trees along the field’s western edge. Frost clung to the grass and
prairie sage, which crunched like broken glass beneath their boots. By
the time they reached a copse of cedars and Russian olives, the trail had
diminished to single drops.

A rage was building in David’s stomach, combusting until he felt its
heat beneath his coat; he was sweating, despite the cold. Someone did
this. Someone would have to pay. He clenched the flashlight. No. Not
now, he told himself. He could be angry later. Now he needed to focus
on the task at hand. Where had she gone?

“There.”

David saw her first, lying on her side amid a clearing. She seemed
dead, till her chest rose and deflated, and a ghostly plume floated from
her nostrils. He leaned over her, careful not to step in the blood running
across the ground. David set the flashlight in the grass facing her and
pulled off his gloves.

“Sons of bitches,” Gentry hissed.

“Rifle shot. Hit her here,” David said, tracing his hands along the soft
fur of the cow’s abdomen.

Into her intestines. Lord knows what organs it hit; she was fading fast.

“Sons of bitches,” Gentry repeated, louder.

Suddenly the heifer snorted and spasmed. Her legs thrashed to find
a footing. David fell backward and scrambled away as she pounded
her hooves, almost righting herself. Then she stumbled and collapsed.

They inched back closer.

“She don’t need to suffer no more,” Gentry said.

“She doesn’t,” David agreed.

“I’ll do it. My cow.”

Gentry’s eyes were on the Glock nine-millimeter pistol holstered
on David’s right hip. David clicked open the leather strap and drew the
weapon, cold as hell in his hand.

“No. I can’t have anyone else using my firearm. Regulations.”

He stepped over the cow’s head. She was breathing hard, a froth of
mucus and blood bubbling from her nose and mouth. Her obsidian eyes
pleaded with him, uncomprehending of the pain inside her, the chaos
of the world, the horror of life and the even greater horror of whatever
lies beyond it. David had no answers. He rested the barrel against her
temple and fired.

 

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